bratch77

I had nearly an identical problem that you had, Deborah. I have no idea why, but when I upgraded to WordPress 3.4, I all of the sudden couldn’t upload large media files. Large being less than 10 MB.

Just like you, I wasn’t getting any errors and I disabled plugins, changed themes, etc. The difference is that I’m using Macs and didn’t have IE to actually get things to upload.

I contacted my host about it and then using developer tools in various web browsers, I somewhat got it narrowed down to an async-upload.php issue, but it turns out that it was a php.ini problem.

After about a week of looking into it and having a different issue pop up, it turned out that the post_max_size and the memory_limit were changed in the php.ini file following the upgrade.

Actually, in the midst of this issue, it got to the point where I couldn’t even make a post of just text and it turned out when I called tech support that the post_max_size was coded in megabytes when it should have been in bytes. So when it was coded at 150MB, it was seeing it as 150 bytes for some reason. I’m assuming that the memory limit was the same.

The guy I was talking to with tech support actually changed the post_max_size to the equivalent of 150 megabytes, but actually in bytes. I don’t remember the number, but it as something like 157,000,000 bytes or so if my math is close. He had to look in a PHP manual to figure that out. For some reason certain values inside the file are measured in megabytes and some not.

Either way, make sure you upload file sizes are correct as well as the post_max_size and the memory_limit and that hopefully will help.

I’m not a code guy, I have just figured out enough about files to be dangerous. My head would explode if I had to look into this stuff.

Good luck,

BRATCH

New wrinkle. I tried to upload a large image file straight from my camera and it wouldn’t upload either. All of the images I generally upload are less than 100K so it appears it is a file size problem despite my max file size limit being 32 MB.

Nothing has changed with my home network or anything and the MP3s are my recordings. I just don’t get it.

Switched themes and that didn’t help. Same problem. The file just keeps starting over and starting over again and again and then it just gives up. Sometimes it will get up to 14% done before it starts over and sometimes it won’t get 2% done before it starts over.

Changing themes was the last thing I hadn’t tried.

Thanks for the idea.