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Some images just don't get posted... any thoughts?

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Started 2 years ago by versluis
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versluis
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I'm running Wordpress 2.8.5 with PhotoQ 1.8.2. All works well with a Cron Job... most of the time!

It looks like, about one in 5 images doesn't get posted. The post gets created, but the actual file doesn't get copied into the "original" folder. If I move it manually, the image gets displayed fine.

At first I thought this had to do with image sizes, but they're all 1200 pixels wide or lower, and around 400kb. Then I thought, maybe it's certain characters in the file names (like brackets), but they seem to be unconnected.

Leading up to this problem, I got an error message about low memory (used to be 32MB, probably using too many plugins) so I've increased it server wide to 128MB in my php.ini.

I've been using earlier versions of PhotoQ with earlier versions of Wordpress, and this issue hasn't happened before.

Any thoughts? Could this be a bug?

My setup:
Virtual Server, running CentOS 32bit
PHP version 5.1.6
current PHP Memory: 128MB
ImageMagick is installed (latest version)

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

hmmm, weird. because normally the posting process is the following:

1. move files
2. if successful insert post into wp db

so i would rather expect the inverse :-) but for this case the process goes on like this
3. if insert not successful, move files back

so the only explanation i have right now is that 1. is ok, 2. as well but photoq is mislead in step 3 that 2 was not ok and moves the files back...

when this happens, does the entry in quesiton remain in the photoq queue?
what about the other image sizes apart from the orginal? does the thumbnail get moved to the imgdir/thumbnail/yyyy_mm/filename.jpg folder?
does it only happen with cronjobs? if not, what error messages do you get if you post manually and it happens?

Posted 2 years ago #
versluis
Member

I've not had this problem with manual posts from PhotoQ (but then, I hardly use the manual option).

No, the file does not get posted back to the queue - as far as it's concerned, the post has happened successfully.

I've just done a test and uploaded a photo that didn't get posted again and waited for the Cron Job to kick in... this time, it worked fine (so it's not the file name or image size).

As far as I can tell, all images that could not be posted are still in the imgdir - but not in a year/month subfolder (it has 2009 and a subfolder 10, but they're empty).

No error messages appear when the post gets made, the only thing I can see is the blue image with red text instead of the image, saying "image (title) could not be found" - same as I get when I try to rebuild the image.

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

ok, so the posts are gone from the queue, that might already tell us sth.

however, i am not sure i got your answer to my second question. the 2009/10 subfolders are not really what i was interested in (these are from standard wp uploads as far as i can tell). i was wondering about the imgdir/thumbnail/2009_10 folder? does an image appear there for posts that failed?

Posted 2 years ago #

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