Peter Jordan Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Usually my uploads work very well, I have a high speed Broadband connection, usually there are no delays and images upload in about seven seconds each. Not today! I have been trying several times since early this morning. Each time the first image goes to about 4%, then it stops. Each time I have left it for a minute or two and then cancelled the upload. Has anyone else been having trouble like this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Give FTP a try. I used to have the odd hang with webupload, but Filezilla never fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Mark, I would have to look up how to do FTP, since getting my fast Broadband it never seemed to be worth the bother, but hey, maybe now is the time. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 The details are on the FTP upload page. It takes a few minutes to work it out and I find it always takes 2 attempts to connect, but once you have the settings memorised it's one click to start and a drag-and-drop to upload. Be careful though. It's so fast, it takes no prisoners. You can't stop an upload. In filezilla, 'local site' is your uploads folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinS Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I had the same issue today in a batch of 5. Three went fine and #4 stopped at 3%. I tried Pause a few times; no help. After that I just left it at 3% and they resumed uploading in about 30 minutes. Exactly the same issue a few months ago. Might be heavy traffic on a Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Yes, that's why I got fed up with the uploader- unexplained hangs for minutes on end, sometimes requiring a manual process termination causing duplicate subs. No more now. Whizzo. Crikey, does anyone remember how long uploads used to take before fibre? 5 minutes each, something like that? It's about 2 seconds on FTP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Normally OK using broadband for me but tonight it's taken 2 hours to upload a batch of 55 also stopping at 4%. Must be some big uploads going on. Regards Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Craig, If you have got it too, I am going to leave it until tomorrow morning. If it is still bad I may try teach yourself FTP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Carlsson Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Had the same problem on the 22nd - uploader got stuck at 4% despite repeated attempts. Switched to FTP instead which worked fine. Used the uploader again on the 25th and it worked fine. Both batches were accepted later on the 25th without any errors of any kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 I woke up early and did the upload at 5:30am, when it went through as normal. I am still going to look into FTP. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 My News uploads, where you do need a speedy service, are relatively rare, but on the 3rd last occasion neither the conventional nor the FTP option worked, very frustrating! I came back to it a little while later and the images when through OK. I find that the conventional service normally works fine for me and is easier to use than FTP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Last nights upload just passed QC. Uploaded another batch of 31 which took 20 minutes against about 5 minutes when the system in is good health. It must be suffering from this bad cough that's going around. Regards Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Peter - ftp is THE way to go. Once used, you won't go back to the clunky web method. Seriously. Rgds, Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I agree, I usually do it straight from PhotoMechanic which I use for captioning etc. Especially useful for news with OOC jpegs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMH Images Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Yup - having the same upload issues. I have over 20,000 images for sale, so I'm very used to uploading! All the sudden 2 days ago everything locks up! Very frustrating. I've tried different images, different computers, updated shockwave, etc. Still nothing this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger Bosma Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Same here, upload batches nearly always stalling, sometimes able to upload one image, but then the next stopping a 4 or 6 percent. Have been trying for a few hours already. yesterday's batch also took ages to complete. Admittedly this is nothing new, usually every week this happens for a couple of hours, but the problem seems more pervasive now. Do the alamy servers have structural capacity problems, not being able to handle the number of uploads or is it something else? I'll try and set up a ftp server perhaps, but if that's also affected, that won't do much good (-; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I'll try and set up a ftp server perhaps, but if that's also affected, that won't do much good Think you'll find it's different architecture so ftp doesn't suffer the same problems. It'll all be about your own upload speed. Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger Bosma Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I'll try and set up a ftp server perhaps, but if that's also affected, that won't do much good Think you'll find it's different architecture so ftp doesn't suffer the same problems. It'll all be about your own upload speed. Richard. My upload speed is normally fine, no complaints there, as long as the server is active. Yesterday was the worst day I can remember. Even used several different computers, operating systems and browsers. It's simply nice to have a backup if one of the two is down or very unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModernPics Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I agree, I usually do it straight from PhotoMechanic which I use for captioning etc. Especially useful for news with OOC jpegs. Same here - Love PhotoMechanic using for years - so perfect to move mass files around, select files for editing in my LightRoom, and the Meta Data it is "golden" ... for sure the workflow is pop everything into PM, then sort it all out, import into LR and export But staying on topic I was not able to upload by way of Browswer, nor FTP upload - just a hard failure for every image of 4 that I was attempting to upload. I shall try again / I posted up a question in the chat - but due to time difference it is 01:00 AM in the UK Cheers, Dave | ModernPics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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