I keep getting an error message when attempting to add media: "Thumbnail media/thumbs/BrooksSamuelH_NYT1902.jpg could not be generated automatically.
Blank name or illegal characters in name"
Any clues on what I could be doing wrong? I added another media file just an hour earlier without problems.
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Thomas
I've already reported this sporadic error to Gerry, but so far we're stumped. We've tried to recreate and to determine the cause, but so far - I can not determine what has caused these occasional errors.
Gerry
Sound familiar? No 'obit' in his file name (and btw, I tried 'obit' and it had no effect).
Stephen
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I have the same problem. I updated to version 4.1.5 today and I'm having problems creating automatically the thumbnails. I just reverted to version 4.1.3 and there everything works. I have a debian etch with php5 and mysql if that helps.
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Anonymous
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2008-05-08
Stephen / Thomas, have you confirmed that it is the name, and not the file itself at fault? I've had similar problems (can't remember the exact error) when I tried to load a mal-formed jpeg file. There was something wrong with the compression applied when I reduced it in size. When I went back to the original and recreated the file it uploaded OK.
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There are many reasons why the function generate_thumbnail(), which is in includes/functions_mediadb.php, will fail.
Unfortunately, quite a bit of surgery would be required, not only to this function but also to all the places where it's used, to have PhpGedView produce a meaningful failure message.
The various reasons for tumbnail creation failure are:
- "Automatically generated thumbnails" option in the GEDCOM configuration is "No"
- target thumbnail file already exists
- media/thumbs directory is not writable
- support for that image type is missing in the GD library
- original-sized image does not exist
- path for the target thumbnail does not exist and could not be created
- size of original image could not be determined
- external original image (usually a URL) could not be read
- not enough memory for the original image plus the thumbnail
- the GD library function imagecreatefromxxx failed
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Well, I deleted the earlier uploads in the media file, checked the thumbs but nothing new, opened the image in Paint, resized, and tried again. Bingo! (Who knows?)
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Did you solve this? Because I have now a similar problem with PGV 4.2.3 with same error message.
It also says that the media is already there and when I check on the server it was correct.
However no link of the media to the the person…
I would guess it FIRST checks and than uploads to server and link it… or removes it from server when not OK.
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I keep getting an error message when attempting to add media: "Thumbnail media/thumbs/BrooksSamuelH_NYT1902.jpg could not be generated automatically.
Blank name or illegal characters in name"
Any clues on what I could be doing wrong? I added another media file just an hour earlier without problems.
Thomas
I've already reported this sporadic error to Gerry, but so far we're stumped. We've tried to recreate and to determine the cause, but so far - I can not determine what has caused these occasional errors.
Gerry
Sound familiar? No 'obit' in his file name (and btw, I tried 'obit' and it had no effect).
Stephen
Hi,
I have the same problem. I updated to version 4.1.5 today and I'm having problems creating automatically the thumbnails. I just reverted to version 4.1.3 and there everything works. I have a debian etch with php5 and mysql if that helps.
Stephen / Thomas, have you confirmed that it is the name, and not the file itself at fault? I've had similar problems (can't remember the exact error) when I tried to load a mal-formed jpeg file. There was something wrong with the compression applied when I reduced it in size. When I went back to the original and recreated the file it uploaded OK.
There are many reasons why the function generate_thumbnail(), which is in includes/functions_mediadb.php, will fail.
Unfortunately, quite a bit of surgery would be required, not only to this function but also to all the places where it's used, to have PhpGedView produce a meaningful failure message.
The various reasons for tumbnail creation failure are:
- "Automatically generated thumbnails" option in the GEDCOM configuration is "No"
- target thumbnail file already exists
- media/thumbs directory is not writable
- support for that image type is missing in the GD library
- original-sized image does not exist
- path for the target thumbnail does not exist and could not be created
- size of original image could not be determined
- external original image (usually a URL) could not be read
- not enough memory for the original image plus the thumbnail
- the GD library function imagecreatefromxxx failed
Well, I deleted the earlier uploads in the media file, checked the thumbs but nothing new, opened the image in Paint, resized, and tried again. Bingo! (Who knows?)
If you resized outside PGV, the image was too big for the amount of memory you limited PGV to.
Did you solve this? Because I have now a similar problem with PGV 4.2.3 with same error message.
It also says that the media is already there and when I check on the server it was correct.
However no link of the media to the the person…
I would guess it FIRST checks and than uploads to server and link it… or removes it from server when not OK.
Okay, resize of the image did the trick for me as well.
But what limits has PGV for this?
This was a original scan from an archive:
Orginal -> 2208 x 3384 Pixels, size 597.37 KB = FAILURE
Modified -> 1024 x 1569 Pixels, size 207.74 KB = OK