Unable to upload pictures

[Erik88]

It's not allowing me to upload photos from my phone like I always do. It says the files are too large. Tried a variety of different pics and none worked. I even went into my profile and deleted out old uploads to make sure I had space for my account.

 

Anyone else having issues?

 

[MacGyver]

@TGO Davidis making some changes to the way pictures are stored.  Bear with us while we get it squared away. 

[Snaveba]

If you have an iPhone, email the photos to yourself. iOS will let you choose the file size so you can choose a smaller size. Then you can save the resized photo to you phone and upload those. 
 

 

[TGO David]

OK, I made some changes to make this a little easier on folks who are accustomed to uploading photos straight from their iPhones to platforms like Facebook, Instagram, etc.
 

1. I set the maximum upload size to 8MB.  This means that a person should be able to upload all but the most massive photos.
    
2. I then set the forum to resize those photos to a maximum of 1600 x 1200 pixels.  The forum does that and discards the original photo if it was larger.

 

Let me provide an example:

The original size of the photo above, on my iPhone 12 Pro, was 4032 x 3024 pixels and 5MB in size.

When I uploaded this photo as an attachment, the forum software downsized it to 1600 x 1200 pixels and around 400KB in size and discarded the original file.

These changes that I just made should help you guys post photos without a lot of gymnastics being required but will also help conserve the amount of file storage that we make available to you.

 

 

Hope this helps.