Patrick Gray

News Flash. It was simply a Filezilla issue. I upgraded to more and faster resources via GoDaddy. I uploaded (so far) a total of 5 mp4’s each about 120mb. I sent them all to the server in a folder outside of wp-content/uploads via FileZilla..success. I then moved them one by one from outside of wp-content/uploads into being inside wp-content/uploads and to also have them imported to be seen as media files by WordPress….success using the Server Import option. Then I moved them from one media folder inside wp-content/uploads into a different folder inside wp-content/uploads via clicking the edit media tab then typing in the new folder name then clicking the update button….success. These steps take about 6 minutes each….boring…. but if it works, I can make the time. For GoDaddy hosted servers, GoDaddy allows a person to use a phpmanagement program to go into the php database of that person’s website. This phpmanagement program allows a person to click status, then click monitor. In the monitor mode, one can watch selected database activities of the website as they happen in real time. I opened this phpmanagement monitor option in a separate window and I could watch a real time display of cpu utilization (by the database at the server level.) Then, in a separate window, I requested my website to do these media file actions that I listed above. As these media operations began, on the window showing cpu utilization, the cpu use increases from about 20% to 100% and stays at 100% for about 6 minutes, then drops back to 20%. Usually about 1 minute after the cpu utilization drops off from 100% back to 20%, then (in the other window showing my website activity), the media is displayed in the media library with all the changes successfully completed. So this looks like complete success to me. It is just a lot of steps. I still would suggest that you consider to make the file management plugin that I outlined in my set of YouTube videos. I still think people would be a lot happier using that plugin that I described as their method to get their media files to be just the way they want them. Thanks again. Dr. Gray

Ah ha, I have discovered it. FileZilla is uploading and displaying my mp4’s as uploaded and placed where I told them to go. However, I went into File Manager via GoDaddy and looked at my server files and file manager is displaying the jpg image files that WP Media folder successfully pulled in via server import. So I will now see if I can find out how filezilla is behaving in this strange fashion. Boy, am I tired of this. pg

Ouch. This time it again successfully added a media item, except it did not add an mp4 video file (I tried this with my number 53 mp4, 146mb). Same process same steps, and this time it has added the number 53 mp4 but it displays it as a jpg image file, again an image file that I added earlier. Any thoughts? Of interest, when I added via server import my number 52 mp4, it shows in the media area as a jpg that I added earlier, and if I use this process to bring in my number 53 mp4, the process occurs, but this number 53 mp4 is also displayed as a jpg image file, and it is a different jpg file from the one that happened with the number 52 mp4. What is going on?

Hey dbarrere
Well I was so happy. I sent in one of my mp4’s and got it into my wordpress media folders where I wanted it. It was an mp4 that I named number 51. I have uploaded number 52 twice now from my computer using filezilla and each time I put the mp4 in a folder I named: ‘Upload-to-public_html’ on the server outside of wp-content. Then I go to settings then WP Media folder then choose ‘import from server’ and ask it to import from the folder ‘Upload-to-public_html’ outside of wp-content into the folder named ‘Upload-to-public_html” that exists inside of wp-content in the uploads folder. Usually this process pulls in a copy of the mp4 into wordpress where it is seen as a media item, as an mp4. But each time I do this with number 52 mp4, the process works fine except the result is that the media library considers this mp4 file (112 mb) to be a jpg that I uploaded earlier. Very confusing. I am worried the database needs to be reset. Any ideas? I did uninstall and reinstall both WP Media Folder and WP Media folders. I am going to try my mp4 number 53 (146 mb) and see what happens. I did open on my own computer my mp4 number 52 and it plays just fine. This is why I feel this is a database issue. I’m thinking to rename it and try again, because (I hope) the database has this jpg attached to the file name of number 52. Whew. Anyway, please help. Dr. Gray

I forgot to add, that out on the web, my website seems to load OK. All of this slowdown is happening when I try to log on to my website to manage it. I just finished 5 more of my Instructional Videos and they are up OK at YouTube. I FTP’d them to the web server, they are not yet in the uploads folder, I was hoping to add them to my site. No luck. And here’s another interesting thing, just as I’m sitting here typing this support request, the brown LED light has decreased to indicating 255 files in the queue. I am really beginning to wonder that I must remain connected to my site as an Administrator for the queue to be processed. hmmmmm Dr. Gray

Well, I have had nothing but bad experiences with the native WordPress media behavior. I’ve been on my website since 2015. I have 22 Gigabytes of media. Every time I opened the media folder of my site, it proceeded to try to list every media item I had ever uploaded. What a waste of time. I feel that almost nobody remembers, understands, or thinks about their files based on what month of what year they uploaded them. They tend to think about them either via their name or the topic or subject that they were uploaded in reference to. In addition, WordPress is exceptionally sensitive to any “hiccups” during the upload process. We’re pretty rural and our internet just isn’t very stable. Trying to get large media files to upload was endlessly frustrating because any internet variability at all and WordPress just cancels the upload. I went to FTP and as an upload process FTP is much more stable, much more forgiving, and a lot faster. But with FTP, one is forced to evaluate and “see” their website as a collection of files in folders, because that’s how FTP sends the uploaded files into the website. I have so many topics that I want to talk about with the robot and every topic is tediously complex because I am putting together a robot that runs totally differently from what is out there right now. I think its revolutionary, but whenever one is far from what is the typical, then resistance will arise and the best defense against resistance is to carefully make your point, one little bit at a time, building further points on previous points, where if anyone suddenly says, “Whoa, you can’t be there, how did we get to this point of view?” and I can say or they can remember, “Oh, yeah, he uploaded every single bit of what he was talking about.” “I can just go back to previous mp4’s and replay what he said.” So I want plenty of data, easily understood, presented in excruciating detail. But to do that, I absolutely must be able to understand, find, remember, check on, and basically manage what it is that I have said. And the mp4’s are big enough that they randomly can get corrupted (translation from my son the programmer: Dad got into the mp4 at the site and goofed it up)…but anyway, I need to be able to go find that mp4, remove it, and re-upload it from the storage area. All of this requires that I must be able to treat my website file and folder system (at least at the media level) exactly like I would treat this data if I were looking through it and managing it with the file manager of Windows 10 or Windows server. So that’s why. And I wish I knew but I don’t….but its hard for me not to believe that others would want to create an internet experience with their website in the same manner as I am doing. Its fun to type, words are absolutely the mind of the human race, but its a media world out there. If you’re not doing things with media, you have no chance. I’m not sure I’m asking to do with my website files in the management sense anything that a whole lot of other people would want to do, if it wasn’t just so complicated. pg

dbarrere
Thank you for your kind reply. I am attempting to digest all of this. I find myself intimidated by database activities. They always seem like magic to me. My son is a programmer. I talked to him about this, he smiled and said “Well, dad, you’ve created the front end of a program, and not much else.” I asked him, “What is ‘the front end’?” He explained to me that the front end is the part that the public sees, all the rest is the working portion of the program. From my point of view, all I really want to deal with is the front end. So my hope was a simple 3 step process

Step 1) This is what your files and folders look like now at the server level
Step 2) What do you want your files and folders at the server level to look like?
Step 3) Here’s what this program thinks you requested at Step 2) above and if you say yes, then this program will make these changes.

Thanks again for helping. I think I have about 30 more Instructional Videos to upload on the topic of how to make a video of a a collection of moving objects that only exist as a 3D drawing, and yet the imagery of the video is pleasing to look at because of rendering. I have an internal combustion open cycle heat engine motor for the robot that generates power without making any noise. I think this is just essential for robots to move out into the world of practicality. I know from a global warming viewpoint that the end hope is not fossil fuel, but I feel that right now battery technology is acting as an impediment to robots moving out into the population. I think that’s going to be about 70 videos, so I must get this video uplink issue settled. I feel as an intuition, that others may also want to do this with their websites. Little conversational videos about this or that in 4-5 minute bits are a pretty cool way for someone to “talk to the world.” So to me, its worth figuring out how to get this to work well. I think I made a big mistake by working with these media files in my website before I had them in their proper location. My plan is uppload collections of mp4’s via FTP, then move mp4’s one-by-one into the folder where I want them to be, then make sure WordPress “sees” each mp4 as a full-fledged WordPress media file, and only then will I incorporate this media file into my website. I have my fingers crossed. ?? pg