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Thumbnails won't copy
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:32 am
by TKS
Hiya all!
I just installed and have started configuring my install. I've gotten all the cosmetic stuff configured and done...now I'm having difficulty with the thumbnail builder. For some reason, It gives me the following error when I try and build thumbnails for my image gallery:
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Wanted to use image.jpg as it's own thumbnail, but failed to copy!
Is this a permissions problem? I was thinking it might be this...or that the path to imagemagick isn't valid. I'm running redhat 9.0 (clarkconnect)...is there a way to check where the imagemagick converter file is located? I guess I'm just thinking out loud here...Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
TKS
Re: Thumbnails won't copy
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:15 pm
by garvinhicking
Yes, the error message can only happen if either GDlib or ImageMagick fail. But this failure can also happen because of a permission problem, so make sure your "upload" folder is writeable for the webserver user.
You can find the imagemagick binary by using "locate convert" on a shell. That should tell you the location, usually /usr/bin oder /usr/x11/bin/
Regards,
Garvin.
Got it!
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:23 pm
by TKS
It was both permissions AND the location.
Odd thing about it is that it was under /usr/bin/convert
with no mentioning of imagemagick at all. Thanks for the help
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:47 pm
by SurfDude
I get the same error when I try to make thumbnails. I'm running Apache on Windows, but I think I have GD2 support (how can I check that?). And when I decide to installe ImageMagick, what should be the correct path to it?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:53 pm
by Guest
SurfDude wrote:I get the same error when I try to make thumbnails. I'm running Apache on Windows, but I think I have GD2 support (how can I check that?). And when I decide to installe ImageMagick, what should be the correct path to it?
In addition to this post: manually resizing a picture in the Media Library Screen does work.
Rebuild Thumbs - Fails
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:39 pm
by --p
I also am having a similar problem when I do "Rebuild Thumbs":
Synchronizing the database with the image folder
Done (Synchronized 0 images).
Resizing
Resize pichu1.jpg: x
Wanted to use pichu1.jpg as it's own thumbnail, but failed to copy!
Done (resized 0 images).
I'm running on windows: Apache 2.0, mySQL 4.0, PHP 4.3.9, ImageMagick-6.1.6-Q8
Images get uploaded in the upload directory fine, and I can rename them as well as create new directories within upload, so I'm assuming that permissions are okay?
I can also resize them, and this resize seems to hold... but when I do a "Rebuild Thumbs" command, all the resizes get blown away and the images go back to their original size. I'm assuming that the command to do resizes isn't ImageMagick?
The path to ImageMagic seems okay... if I change it, everything hangs... so that's probably a sign it's incorrect. I have it quoted "" in order for it to work, because it's in the "Program Folder".
Otherwise, everything looks really cool!
--p
Re: Got it!
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:12 pm
by houndbee
TKS wrote:Odd thing about it is that it was under /usr/bin/convert
with no mentioning of imagemagick at all. Thanks for the help
That is not odd actually, that is the location where the convert binary resides on most standard ImageMagick installations.