Can't post images thru Attachment Manager

[Gamerprinter]

Dumped my cache and cookies, restarted computer then browser. Problem is still there, and it only occurs, when I click the upload button.

I could have picked something up from one of my publisher forum sites, that's my only guess.

Don't know what to do?

GP

[Redrobes]

Another vague thought. If you go to your "User CP" and look at attachments at bottom and click there does it come up with a nice round number for the total file size for all attachments ?

[Gamerprinter]

It tells me I have 408.58 MB in 641 uploaded attachments.. not sure if that's a problem - I am no programmer, so its means nothing to me.

GP

[Redrobes]

Well that doesnt sound like the sort of number Arcana might have put in as a limit.... dunno really. Id wheel out Wireshark at this point but thats a pretty over the top tool if your not familiar with raw networking bytes tho.

[msa]

Did you try with a few different files, out of curiosity?

Also, does the offending colon show up in the dialog box, or do you get an error message after the fact that says something like:

xxx.jpg: File is not an image

I meant to add: this error message can apparently occur if there is a mismatch between the vbulletin max upload size and the apache/web server max upload size. That would only occur if your image fell in what I guess is a fairly small range close to the max upload size (if there even is a mismatch). So if you cannot upload a much smaller image then this isn't the problem.

[Gamerprinter]

I figured it out, it was a problem with the file. I resaved the original and somehow it didn't compress like it did before and it was too big to upload. I got the same file to upload, once I fixed the problem.

Whew! I feared something more serious.

Thanks for the help, everyone!

EDIT: you can delete this thread if you want, CLs, anyone?

GP

[msa]

I figured it out, it was a problem with the file.

It didn't really help that the error message was completely useless. I'd think vBulletin has been around long enough that they might have added a 'file too big' message to replace it. LOL!

[Redrobes]

EDIT: you can delete this thread if you want, CLs, anyone?

Prob worth keeping around in case anyone else gets hit with the same issue. I did a search on vBulletin and colon and did not come up with anything - lets let google do something useful with it.

[msa]

I could have picked something up from one of my publisher forum sites, that's my only guess.

I would be surprised if this was a symptom of being hacked.

Does anyone know if the attachment manager uses the colon for any kind of internal code logic? Like, say, to distinguish between multiple attachments?