Image Library Problems

Qoute: “And I can’t get into the library to use images loaded there in a new post.”
These are all images used before in posts right? If you ftp a new (never used in wp) image to your server, WP will not see it.

Next, I asked whether the directory 2010/02/ was created for february?
As a last try, you could untick the setting: Organize my uploads in year/month based folders in Dashboard/Settings/Miscellenous and then try adding a new image through the WP dashboard in the edit post screen.

I’m not using an ftp, I’m in the wordpress admin/dashboard trying to do them from there. And yes, I don’t see the ones used in previous posts. But I’m also unable to upload new ones, using the browser or flash uploader in the WP admin site.

I will try the settings thing. I don’t think my images need to be organized into folders for any reason.
Thanks, I’ll come back if that doesn’t help.

Still not working. I even upgraded, hoping that would help, but no luck. Any other ideas?

Clear for me.
I still think of a server memory problem. Because the two top most images on your site are both around 1,3 mB.
Can you try uploading a real small image, say 100kB. With Irfanview you can resize images but also leave them at say 800 px wide but compress and save so that they shrink to 100 kB or something around that mark.

Nope, it’s not that. I have tried to upload very small images. 30KB doesn’t even work. I did add your memory limit increase fix, too.

Thanks for the irfanview suggestion, but I just checked it out and it’s not available for Macs. Anyway, I have photoshop and can optimize my images there. I’m only sometimes lazy and upload them straight out of iPhoto.

Well I am sort of at the end of my wits.
Did you ever try it out in a Windows computer or any other computer than your main workstation?

I’m still following this and I can’t work it out either. @ethomasmcginnis, do you know what user on the server owns your uploads directory?

Hi apljdi, I’m glad you’re still with me, but I don’t know the answer to your question. It should be me as I am the one who uploaded it. But I uploaded it via an FTP client and I’m logging into WordPress via the admin there, so they’re not really the same thing. Do you know how I would find that out or fix it?? (Yahoo couldn’t help!)

It should be me as I am the one who uploaded it.

Maybe. Not necessarily.

Do you know how I would find that out or fix it?

Caveat: I hope this works on a YTS server. The following is basically Apache on Linux instructions but hopefully enough of it is similar on YTS that it helps some.

Put <?php phpinfo(); ?> in a file and save it with a .php extension (phpinfo.php should work) to your web server– same directory as wp-config (so you can find it easily). Load that file a browser and search for “User/Group”. That will tell you what the server runs as. You should be able to get the user and group of the Uploads directory using an FTP client. You want the user to match or the group to match or both (any of those will work) and then you want to match up the permissions. For example, if the server is in the group ‘daemon’ then you want the uploads directory to be in group daemon and you want the permissions on the upload directory to be writable by the group ‘daemon’. I hope that makes sense.

Oh, I did that already. I got the phpinfo screen, but couldn’t find the user/group or anything that looked right.

Henkholland, I tried a PC today and no luck there either. I’m at my wits too! It’s broken!!

Hi again my trusty helpers, I have a new piece of information for this puzzle…I can’t post anything!! I tried to write a quick “technical difficulties, please stay tuned” message without and images and I can’t post at all. I get the edit screen, but then if I click save draft or publish, it takes me back to the post list and my draft is just gone. It doesn’t publish or save what I just wrote.

Would it be ok if I post this question anew in the troubleshooting forum? Does that bring any new ideas to light for you?
THANKS!!

I wouldn’t repost it. Duplicate posts are frowned on and as long as we are posting to the thread it will stay near the top of the “Unresolved” threads.

It should not be this hard. Is getting a new host out of the question?

Well, I don’t know. I guess I could look into it. Then I’ll have to move it again, ugh!

I’m sorry but really I’ve set up a fair few WP sites and it really shouldn’t be this hard.