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[Fiebre Verde]

Quick question - has the attachment size limit one can upload changed recently?
It used to be 5 Mb per image/attachment until... yesterday.
Today I was trying to upload an image of 3.6 Mb but I got the following bilingual warning message
"Tried to upload empty file or the file is too big (more than 3Mb)".
"Está intentando enviar un fichero erróneo o demasiado grande (más de 3Mb)"

I can certainly reduce the size of the images to comply with the new limit but I was curious to know if this change was intentional as the comment next to the Filename field still says:
"The size of the image file should not exceed 5MB (mega bytes). We recommend that you reduce the image size to 1600 pixels".

So has the limit been reduced or is this a system glitch?

Thanks for any feedback.

Gérard

[Jordi Fabre]

[Fiebre Verde]

Thanks for confirming Jordi.
After waiting for a while, I tried again and now it works - not sure what happened.

[Doug]

This is a great improvement. I have not been posting photos here or on some other sites since Mindat increased the photo file size to 40MB. I used to keep several different files with the file sizes appropriate for individual sites. I no longer do this as it far too disk space intensive and time intensive to make all the different acceptable formats. Maybe some day I will resize photos to meet the requirements here.