Wednesday, March 15

Appeal to fellow geeks

Despite much tinkering, Blogger is still being awkward with regard to image uploads. The way it normally works is that you select an image to add and it generates two resized versions in JPG format: one at 1024x768 and the other at 320x240. It then uses the smaller image as an item in your post that links to the larger image. It does all this with a really odd looking block of code:
[a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sindark.com/uploaded_images/IMG_BIG.JPG"][img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.sindark.com/uploaded_images/IMG_SMALL.JPG" border="0" alt="DESCRIPTION" /][/a]
I've tried uploading small and large images of the right sizes and plugging the filenames into that template, but that doesn't seem to work either, as well as being quite a pain.

I am trying to use the image tool to have it automatically resize and upload pictures to my FTP server. It can upload posts fine and non-image files fine, but it hangs every time I try to upload an image. In Firefox, it does so with "Waiting for photos.blogger.com..." listed at the bottom of the photo upload window. In Opera, it just hangs at the upload screen, without even the animation that usually accompanies the upload process. Safari shows the animation, but it never ends. The same tool is capable of uploading images to my BlogSpot hosted blog without problems.

I can put files in my uploaded images folder via an FTP client and I've checked the privileges on that folder. Obviously, the login information is correct. I've tried clearing my cache and cookies. I've also tried this process in Firefox 1.5, Opera 8.2, and the latest version of Safari. What else could be wrong? Is this a Blogger bug, or am I doing something wrong? Exactly the same setup worked fine three days ago.

Posted by Milan at 12:09 PM  

8 Comments

  1. Anonymous posted at 12:35 PM, March 15, 2006  
    As a computer expert in Nigeria, I feel that I can assist you with this problem. Simply send my your Blogger and FTP username and password, as well as any credit card and banking information: reallynotascam@gmail.com

    PS. Have you tried using a different image file? One corrupt jpeg could be causing all this hardship.
  2. B posted at 12:46 PM, March 15, 2006  
    "How do you feel?' he asked him.


    "Like a military academy,"said Blogger, "bits of me keep passing out."
  3. Anonymous posted at 3:23 PM, March 16, 2006  
    The Blogger status page acknowledges "transient Blog*Spot problems that have popped up recently."

    They say it's been fixed.
  4. Milan posted at 3:31 PM, March 16, 2006  
    Still broken.

    Very annoying.
  5. Milan posted at 3:40 PM, March 16, 2006  
    Some really good general ideas for improving Blogger are here.
  6. Anonymous posted at 3:56 PM, March 16, 2006  
    This issue also seems to be under discussion in this forum.
  7. Blogger Support posted at 12:00 AM, March 17, 2006  
    Hi there,

    Thanks for notifying us of this problem. Our developers are aware of the
    issue with images uploading to FTP blogs and are currently working very
    hard to fix it. We appreciate your patience in the meantime, and we
    encourage you to check http://status.blogger.com for any future updates.

    Sincerely,
    Blogger Support
  8. Anonymous posted at 11:01 PM, March 19, 2006  
    Thursday, March 16, 2006

    Currently photo uploading is not working for FTP users. We are aware of the problem and should have a fix within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

    Update (4:10pm) : This has been fixed. Thank you for your patience.

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