John Mitchell Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) Does anyone know if Alamy still has a maximum compressed file size? It used to be 25 MB. I doubt that this is still the case, but Alamy SizeCheck continues to fail compressed files 25+ MB. Edited October 25, 2018 by John Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 This hasn't applied in years. In fact I have never seen it. There doesn't appear to be any limit except for the 200MB pixel dimensions (uncompressed size) limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 10 hours ago, MDM said: This hasn't applied in years. In fact I have never seen it. There doesn't appear to be any limit except for the 200MB pixel dimensions (uncompressed size) limit. Thanks. That's what I thought. I guess that Alamy SizeCheck hasn't been updated in years either. As mentioned, the program still marks 25+ MB files as "Failed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreassen Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I have had problems with uploading panoramas recently. My default uploader is Filezilla and have never had a problem with it. I haven't had a QC failure in nearly four years. I just started making panoramas and tried uploading them and had a number of strange failures. What happens is, I set up a folder of images to upload, run Filezilla and select the images to upload to the Stock directory. Everything runs smoothly and Filezilla reports a successful completion of the upload. When I check in the Alamy Image Manager, however, it takes ages for the files to begin to show up and they don't all show up right away. It can take several hours or even overnight for a directory of panoramas to appear in the manager. When they do, its not all at once, they come in by ones and twos. Furthermore, not all the images show up. Recently I uploaded seven panoramas which Filezilla reported as successful but only five ultimately showed up in the manager. All five passed QC, which took almost a week but the other two just never showed up. They didn't fail QC, it appears they never even made it into the process. My panoramas range in size from 26Mb to 109Mb, compressed file size. This would be way below the 200Mb compressed limit which, in any event, applies only to 360 panoramas. To illustrate my problem, I have analyzed two files, one that uploaded and passed QC and one which vanished into the ether: File Name Stock-22_D85S2_3444-471 Stock-22_D85S2_3136-161Size on disk 83.6Mb 84.8MbSize, uncompressed 540.4Mb 470MbWidth 33680px 29848pxHeight 5608px 5504pxPixel size 180MP 157MPUpload status Disappeared Success In terms of compressed file size, the larger file uploaded successfully while the smaller one did not. Not that there is a huge difference. The unsuccessful file is clearly larger in terms of uncompressed size, pixel width and overall pixel size. Just as a test, I tried uploading the failed files via the Alamy web based uploader. Never got anything but a permanent spinning doughnut and had to close the browser after several hours just to break out of it. If Alamy has an upper size limit for non-360 degree panoramas or regular image files, I can't find it. I hope somebody can shed some light on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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