Photos from Android phone too big?

Zeppelin5000

Zeppelin5000

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I'm sure it's a new forum layout thing, but I can't attach photos now directly from my phones photo gallery. It says they are too big... Never had that issue for posting just a single photo. Anyone know a workaround?
 
Its an issue I am working on. The system resizes photos for upload, but the maximum it tries to upload is like 20 Megapixel, anything over it won't do. The resize mechanism for this forum is different than the VB, but I am aware its an issue.
 
Dradzk said:
Zeppelin, I used MS Word to shrink mine. Kind of a pain moving stuff around, but it works.

Reduce the file size of a picture in Microsoft Office - Microsoft Support

Change picture resolution and compression to make files smaller.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com
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Yeah, I’ve done that before from my computer, but I usually upload directly from my phone. I was just wondering if I was missing something from this new forum format. Hell, I just moved houses and my PC isn’t even set up yet 😂
 
I was out of town this weekend, but will work on it this week. There is a way to do it, I just have to find the right settings - for whatever reason there isn't just a button. I can allow huge images to be posted to the forum which would solve it, but people would abuse that and we would run out of server space in a week.
 
mrfarb said:
I was out of town this weekend, but will work on it this week. There is a way to do it, I just have to find the right settings - for whatever reason there isn't just a button. I can allow huge images to be posted to the forum which would solve it, but people would abuse that and we would run out of server space in a week.
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Appreciate the work you do on the forum Mike!
 
Still working on this. It's way more complicated that I think it should be. Its the one issue with Xenforo.
 
This is very odd. I have the max allowable set correctly, but our server won't allow files over 2 MB to be uploaded to be resized. So, its not the forum, its the server. So somehow VB got around the server limits to allow uploads. Can't figure that out.

I read that some people have no issues. I think its because we abuse our database size and our server limits upload size. I'll see if that can be upped.
 
mrfarb said:
Not that this helps you, but I found a hack to easily resize iphone photos for posting, I tried it and it totally works. Keep the resize image under 1200 width and it goes easy.

www.howtogeek.com

How to Resize or Reduce Photo Size on iPhone and iPad

Automate the photo-resizing process in just a couple of seconds!
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
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Thanks Mike. Not sure if that works for me since I have an Android, but there might be something similar. I'll have to take a look.
 
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