Ed Rooney Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 And I don't know the email we use to ask for help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 contributors@alamy.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 sent (233) images via ftp ~3 hours ago; still not showing in AIM; usually appear in AIM within minutes... crikey, is this how the end of the world starts??!! its not fair, its bloody... JUST. NOT. FAIR. 😨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Oh boy. 🤔 And I can't send them an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognyan Yosifov Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 (edited) There have been a few issues with the Alamy website on Chrome recently. It takes ages to load a search (or just doesn't happen), for example. Edited March 9 by Ognyan Yosifov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Maybe try a different web browser? FireFox, etc.? Or even better per Jeffery - FTP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxzoomy Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 12 hours ago, Ognyan Yosifov said: There have been a few issues with the Alamy website on Chrome recently. It takes ages to load a search (or just doesn't happen), for example. For a few days I can't log in on Chrome so I use Firefox which lets me in fine and let me upload today. In Chrome my cursor hovers over 'sign in' but nothing happens when I click it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognyan Yosifov Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 19 minutes ago, zxzoomy said: For a few days I can't log in on Chrome so I use Firefox which lets me in fine and let me upload today. In Chrome my cursor hovers over 'sign in' but nothing happens when I click it. Firefox it is. The only issue for me in Chrome is getting search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Interesting that other people are having difficulty with search. I use Safari. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 11 hours ago, NYCat said: Interesting that other people are having difficulty with search. I use Safari. Paulette Ditto Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 The Alamy upload fixed itself. I use Safari and that's what I want to continue to use. I edited and uploaded 6 new images and they went right through. The three I was having trouble with yesterday still won't budge. I deleted them. Take that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I've been having quite a few issues with Safari too. Sometimes, especially on Alamy, the current tab just freezes. Opening a new tab works. Image searches on Alamy sometimes appear to just hang. Brave and Chrome seem OK though. No idea what's going on. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 does anyone else deliver via ftp? is there upper limit on character length of folder name? I sent "MX-FL231126-29-JPGs27MB-222-Alamy+11" it transferred OK, ended with usual "church bell gong" but didn't show at Alamy's end... could be longest folder name I've ever sent... I know there's no issue with "+" as I've included it before... if you know, please... otherwise, awaiting IM response... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 resolution: sent "naked" images, no folder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradleyPhoto Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 On 10/03/2024 at 18:01, M.Chapman said: I've been having quite a few issues with Safari too. Sometimes, especially on Alamy, the current tab just freezes. Opening a new tab works. Image searches on Alamy sometimes appear to just hang. Brave and Chrome seem OK though. No idea what's going on. Mark I’ve previously informed them of Safari issues particularly in relation to search but never seems to be properly fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I don't use FTP because I'm still unsure the the destination path I need to specify and my uploads are less frequent these days so it doesn't seem worth investing the time / grey matter. Question though, is it possible to upload files from 2 or more web browsers simultaneously? I was thinking, if I didn't want to sit around waiting for stuff to complete, I could start one upload in Safari, start another one using Chrome, and if needs dictate go and put the kettle on while a third starts using Firefox. Would that work or is it IP address aware? Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 31 minutes ago, Jansos said: I don't use FTP because I'm still unsure the the destination path I need to specify and my uploads are less frequent these days so it doesn't seem worth investing the time / grey matter. Question though, is it possible to upload files from 2 or more web browsers simultaneously? I was thinking, if I didn't want to sit around waiting for stuff to complete, I could start one upload in Safari, start another one using Chrome, and if needs dictate go and put the kettle on while a third starts using Firefox. Would that work or is it IP address aware? Any thoughts? If you're finding uploads are slow I'd check your broadband upload speed first using one of the online broadband speedcheckers, as that's probably where the "bottleneck" is. If it is then using more browsers won't give any benefit. Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 5 hours ago, M.Chapman said: If you're finding uploads are slow I'd check your broadband upload speed first using one of the online broadband speedcheckers, as that's probably where the "bottleneck" is. If it is then using more browsers won't give any benefit. Mark Thanks. Not so much a speed constriction just the ability to set-up multiple uploads and leave them to get on with it while I go and do something more worthwhile. I don’t like uploading in big batches just in case one pic gets rejected and screws up the entire upload. Suppose I’m going to have to go and try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Uploads working well here using Safari. Have also Chrome and Firefox as backups. Using macOS Ventura on a 12" i7 16GB 512G storage MacBook Retina, small and very light. Just testing with my phone's hotspot via 5G before leaving home for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 (edited) 18 hours ago, Jansos said: I don’t like uploading in big batches just in case one pic gets rejected and screws up the entire upload. Suppose I’m going to have to go and try it. But, if an image in a submission fails QC, then any other submissions that are also in the QC queue will also be rejected. So that's not a good time saving strategy, unless you wait for each submission to pass QC before uploading the next. That can be quite quick, if you have a very good QC rating, as "QC approval" is often immediate. Mark Edited April 13 by M.Chapman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 On 13/04/2024 at 13:34, M.Chapman said: But, if an image in a submission fails QC, then any other submissions that are also in the QC queue will also be rejected. So that's not a good time saving strategy, unless you wait for each submission to pass QC before uploading the next. That can be quite quick, if you have a very good QC rating, as "QC approval" is often immediate. Mark I didn't realise that. Does that mean that if one photo, in one particular batch, is rejected during QC, then any other but separate batches waiting in QC are also rejected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 38 minutes ago, Jansos said: I didn't realise that. Does that mean that if one photo, in one particular batch, is rejected during QC, then any other but separate batches waiting in QC are also rejected? That is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 2 hours ago, sb photos said: That is correct. Wow, that’s a bit draconian. Thanks for making that clear. Will have to rethink my time saving tactics! 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 4 hours ago, Jansos said: Wow, that’s a bit draconian. Not really. If Alamy QC find a defective image it indicates the contributor's own inspection standards or process can't be relied on. So Alamy are simply asking the contributor to recheck the images that have just been submitted. This practice is quite common in "Goods Inwards inspection" in industry. Mark Edited April 16 by M.Chapman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 5 hours ago, Jansos said: Wow, that’s a bit draconian. Thanks for making that clear. Will have to rethink my time saving tactics! 👍 This has always been the QC policy. As a 10-year veteran I'm surprised you don't know it. With 24k images you'd have been likely to find out about it the hard way if you had lax QC yourself, but now you know. Edited April 16 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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