There is a limit, it's 50MB in a single shot. It's also time dependent. There are some other bulk uploading options, perhaps someday I'll explore some but with all of the photo hosting services out there (fickr, picassa, photobucket, etc) I'm not sure reinventing them is worth the effort. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Would you rather that I devote my time to reinventing those services or would rather I spend considerably less time better connecting to them? It's a real question. I'm a one-man-band and committing to a gallery rewrite is going to take 3-5 months in which time nothing else would get done. I'm not convinced it's the best are to focus on.

I think it would be way more useful to easily connect with those gallery services in a fraction of the time and have them do ongoing maintenance and upgrades and for me to focus on other things I can do better.

What do you think? It's not germane to the bulk upload issue but it sort of is.

 

Whats the time limit, and what's the possibility of the tool hitting that, and throwing up a window to say - limit exceeded and stopping, instead of continuing then failing after all the data's been uploaded. (If thats the case, which is seems to be for me.)

On the other question - My preference would be to link to services that most of the users here are probably already using.

I tend to double upload since when I'm at work, photobucket and some of the other sites are blocked. I hate seeing other people's 'Xs', so I don't compound the issue for those with similar 'browse at work' problems. I also tend to share a few pics here, and post 5-10x more in my public picasa/google gallery.

While I think they are somewhat connected, I think the jump from a set of simple questions about the bulk tool to a total rewrite of the gallery is a stretch.

 

There is no possibility of alerting you, especially not with bulk upload. The time limit is 300 seconds (5 minutes). There is a maximum amount of time the server will run a script for. After that it assumes the script is in some kind of endless loop and kills it. There is no message sent, it simply closes the connection and kills the running script.

Uploading photos, especially large ones, ties up a connection for a long time. Most connections last a second or two, uploads last minutes. There are a limited number of connections possible with the hardware we have so to keep the site responsive there is a time limit imposed so a single person doesn't tie up a connection indefinitely. Upload speed for most people are relatively slow which makes it that much more of an issue.

Yes, it's a big stretch and I'm not suggesting that improving the bulk upload requires a complete rewrite. What I'm saying is the gallery is due for a complete overhaul as it hasn't been touched in over 2 years, is only marginally functional and has a wide number of defects that need to be addressed, unreliable uploading is one of a long list.

It's OT and that's why I said it wasn't germane to this issue but is still a question which needs to be asked. Because I'm pretty much a one-man-band and I'm trying to make S2KI unique to all of the other thousands of vBulletin cookie-cutter forums out there and I can't just spend every minute of every day just working on the software I need to make the best use of the time I do have. That occasionally means asking if I'm on the right track and devoting that time to things which will net the biggest improvements.

 

That must be my issue then... The time out thing. Because I was attempting to upload like 50+ Photos at once

Another thing that I thought about is, I was dragging them direct from my camera to the S2ki folder... Not Camera, to HD, to S2ki. That could be an issue too I am guessing.

 

Link to flikr would be excellent and the compression they use on the images makes them look much sharper than the compression in our gallery tool