Hi Martin @editor. Earlier this year some of us experienced problems uploading photos, particularly using Apple phones and iPads. The problem has never really gone away. The only solution for me has been to only upload one or two photos at a time, even then some drop out. Recently the problem has got worse. Tom Cleaver @tcinla and George Blair @gblair seem to be experiencing something similar.

Thanks as always for your help.

George

Ps. Posting the above pics as a test: from my iPhone, mobile 4G connection, roaming abroad from my usual location, yet far away from the iM upload server which is in the US. tested a batch of 9 pics from the camera roll, which took less than 30 sec to upload. I think this should be kind of a benchmark….

Hi Martin @editor, the problem is that they don’t get accepted as a download. It’s e exactly the same problem as we reported earlier this year.

Hi Martin (@editor).
-I have had periodic problems uploading since the site update some months ago.
-I take my photos using an iPhone 11. I download the photos to my computer (ASUS Gaming Computer with Intel i7 chip).
-I then upload the photos from the computer into iModeler using the photo upload button within each post.
-Problems:

1. I often have the upload fail, with a message in the photo section that advises me of the failure. Sometime I try uploading again, and sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't. I have also tried to take each photo and resize them to 1600, and, once again, sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't.
2. Once I get photos uploaded to iModeler, I sometimes lose them when I finish the article and post it to the website. I don't get any error message, the photos simply disappear when the article is saved. In my first post on the IPMS National Convention yesterday, It took an hour to upload 20 photos to iModeler, but when I posted the article, only 3 showed up in Headlines. I tried several more times to upload more photos by editing the post, and I finally managed to get a total of 8 photos in the post. I tried to add more photos today using a second article, and managed to get 20 to upload into the article, but it took an hour and several attempt. Tom (@tcinla) commented that he uploads only 4 photos at a time, posts the article, and then edits to add more photos.
3. I have tried the same process using an Apple laptop with the same results.

As you might guess, this has become an extremely frustrating process. I have started limiting my photos on articles because the photo upload process has become so time-consuming for me. Between writing an article and getting the photos to upload, I am spending about 2 hours. Smaller update posts take less time, but posting to Headlines is a two hour process. As noted in the previous posts, the problem seems to have gotten worse in the last month or so.

I am ready to try anything that might make this process work. I am not aware of anything that I am doing anything that might be causing this, especially since I think you designed this to be a seamless, simple process. I haven't tried taking photos using a digital SLR with the photos stored on an SD card, so I don't know it that would format the photos more acceptably for upload. Let me know what you would like to try.

Cheers

OK @chinesegeorge and @gblair, I've made the first change (change A) to the security settings and I'd like to test if this brings any efffect. Would you please test if there's any improvement on you end? If possible, I'd like you use this thread to attempt uploading a bunch (ten or so) images that you've had trouble with previously.

That's great news. Let's see if it goes better for @gblair, too, and of course, please let me know if there are any further problems.

OK @gblair. I will PM you to ask for a few more details and, but for now:

Would you mind repeating the same test directly on your iPhone, meaning uploading pics from the device, without going through your PC?

Here is the attempt using the phone. All 3 uploaded normally.

3 attached images. Click to enlarge.