http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Tag: media library en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/321761#post-1294156 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:46:00 +0000 anabelle 1294156@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>bump </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/322621#post-1293899 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:46:43 +0000 zite 1293899@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I don't have a ton of wp experience but it seems like I read somewhere recently that you can't just ftp upload files. The uploader adds them to the database so they can be inserted with various options, without the database info the media library can't see them. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290170 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:26:11 +0000 apljdi 1290170@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote><p>Only ever used a Mac once or twice myself, and that was when working in tech support, so the references to systems 7 &amp; 8 mean absolutely nothing to me...</p></blockquote> <p>My first half a dozen computers where Macs-- not counting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20">VIC-20</a>-- and I still handle tech support for an office of about a dozen Macs. Now most of my work is on Slackware but I have a couple of Windows boxes too. But not to hi-jack the thread... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290146 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:57:05 +0000 t31os_ 1290146@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Only ever used a Mac once or twice myself, and that was when working in tech support, so the references to systems 7 &amp; 8 mean absolutely nothing to me...</p> <p>Never liked the idea of all my hardware only being available from one place and from what i had seen, at a premium. Maybe that's changed now, but the last time i looked at Macs they all used their own particular hardware. Far be it from me to know all about it though...</p> <p>I'd love to see Linux in a windows like form (with the same level of support), then i could dump Windows once and for all, but until Linux supports all the games and apps i want to use, it'll remain a pipe dream. Although i'm half thankful, i know next to nothing about Linux operation, being that i've spent all my time infront of Windows based computers.</p> <p>Anyway, enough of my ramblings, at least now when i think apple jedi i won't feel so weird about it.. (i half suspect you told me before, and i had forgotten - i'll blame my old'ish age if that's the case, hehe). </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290131 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:44:45 +0000 apljdi 1290131@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote><p>can't help but think apple jedi everytime i write that, lol</p></blockquote> <p>That's actually where the name came from-- Apple computer + Jedi-- though that comes from way back at systems 7 and 8 when I actually liked Macs. System 10 makes me nuts. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290120 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:27:21 +0000 t31os_ 1290120@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I never touch the media library unless i'm testing something that needs post attachments, but i always have something in there for when needed.</p> <p>I'm sure you're right apljdi (can't help but think apple jedi everytime i write that, lol), if this problem was common, they'd be alot of people here reporting it already, which leaves the question, what's unique on your install wendilane ?.. (which is why i enquired about plugins).. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290115 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:19:06 +0000 apljdi 1290115@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I also don't have this problem on any of several installs, by the way. And trust me, the graphics people would be complaining if any of them noticed a problem with this. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290094 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:04:24 +0000 t31os_ 1290094@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Was not able to replicate this problem, works fine for me.</p> <p>You didn't mention if you're using plugins, do you have any installed that interact with media? Perhaps one of those could be causing a problem (if you have any installed of course). </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1290058 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:31:21 +0000 apljdi 1290058@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'd try re-uploading your wp-admin directory. It 'feels' like some files are missing or broken. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334297#post-1289742 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:50:55 +0000 wendilane 1289742@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Ok ... I have searched the forums looking for something that would guide me, but to no avail. This topic, to my knowledge, has not been raised.</p> <p>I have a new site I am building, so I have the latest and greatest WP release (2.8.6).</p> <p>Functionally, the Media Library is working wonderfully. However, having more than 20 items (without adjusting the screen options), links to sub pages to view items 21+ are not made available unless I go to the "Unattached" option. When using the "Unattached" option, I do get the "<em>Displaying 1-0 of 0 [«][1][2][3][»]</em>" page links. The difference between the "All" and "Images (##)" options compared to the "Unattached" option is "<strong>&amp;paged=1</strong>" switch is appended to ".../wp-admin/upload.php?detached=1" in the address bar.</p> <p>Under the "All" and "Images (##)" options, I can manually append "&amp;paged=1" (or "2", etc.) to the URL, and be able to see items 21+, so I know that part works, so this is more of a display issue with the code for the Media Library, which should be relatively easy to resolve, as long as I know where to look. This is where I am either searching for assistance, or, need advise on where to download a bug fix.</p> <p>So far, to circumvent this issue, I have adjusted the screen options to show 999 items (maximum allowed), however this is only a temporary fix, as over time, searching through and ever growing list will become quite overwhelming, not to mention if down the line I end up with more than 999 items.</p> <p>Thank you for your time and assistance.</p> <p>Lane </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272090#post-1289622 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:54:54 +0000 buhle78 1289622@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote> <p>In the above example the first line disables file directory listings (so no one can view the files in the 'uploads' or any of its subdirectories. The line with HTTP_REFERER makes sure linking to a particular file is coming from my site. The gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx) is a list of filetypes I want to prevent from being directly linked to (unless they are clicking from my site).</p> <p>Sorry this doesn't use a plugin to solve this (maybe I should write one?), but this seems to do the trick. Hope it helps. </p></blockquote> <p>The problem is people download MP3s how can this solved. Today i realised that google actually indexed an MP3 and i managed to download it using Firefox. What do i add on the .htaccess to stop search engines from going in there. How can i hide the files?</p> <p>Please help </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289406 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:09 +0000 ClaytonJames 1289406@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Glad it helped, Ed. I saved that link on purpose because I encountered a similar situation myself. Guess it finally came in handy!</p> <p>Best wishes. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289311 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:56:39 +0000 Hauder 1289311@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks Everyone.</p> <p>Special thanks to ClaytonJames- The link to the discussion on the WebDeveloper.com website was exactly on point. With it I was able to update the MIME Type on my server and get the files to open correctly! Thanks again!!</p> <p>-Ed </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289264 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:48:32 +0000 ClaytonJames 1289264@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I hate when that happens!! </p> <p>:P </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289253 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:40:47 +0000 Hauder 1289253@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks everyone for the help. I appreciate it!</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Ed </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289247 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:36:06 +0000 alism 1289247@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>What jenny said. :-)</p> <p>To add to that though, &lt;2003 versions used .xls as the file extension, 2007 tend to use .xlsx, so it might also be worth double checking that the file type /program associations are correct too. Not sure how different browsers handle Excel files, but you may find it varies slightly from browser to browser too.</p> <p>Edit: bit distracted there for a few minutes... damn you Clayton for beating me to it!! And more eloquently too. Grrrr! ;-) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289244 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:31:29 +0000 ClaytonJames 1289244@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Office 2007 uses a .docx extension for word instead of .doc like Office 2003, and excel of course is .xlsx not .xls in most cases. The XML file extensions have changed with Office 2007. Here is the MS document explaining it. <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179191.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179191.aspx</a></p> <p>Some browsers ( okay, just Internet Explorer ) have some difficulty interpreting what to do with those files. I visited your site using Firefox, and both the first and second files, .xls and .xlsx downloaded normally when clicked. I re-tested with IE, and only the first one .xls (office 2003) worked correctly. Internet Explorer attempted to identify and download the .xlsx (office 2007) file as a .zip extension. So I think that might be the issue.</p> <p>Some references that might help; <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;ei=ERUIS6L2LsuOlAem_IiFBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAgQBSgA&amp;q=download+.xlsx+as+.zip+internet+explorer&amp;spell=1&amp;fp=5b7cf21b103219ea">download .xlsx as .zip internet explorer</a></p> <p><a href="http://webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162526" rel="nofollow">http://webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162526</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289233 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:22:08 +0000 jennybeaumont 1289233@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Excel files aren't necessarily designed to open in a web browser.<br /> from my mac, when i click on your link, it downloads the file and i can open it locally. to download from a PC (windows), a user would have to know to right-click&gt;save as.<br /> depending on your goal for sharing this doc, you might want to rethink think the file format (the pdf viewer is more common to web browsers), or just indicate to users the right-click&gt;save technique to download.</p> <p>otherwise for sharing docs online, there exist other apps (google docs, drop.io, etc) you could explore.</p> <p>hope this helps.<br /> cheers. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334129#post-1289221 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:35 +0000 Hauder 1289221@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm trying to use my blog to share a few helpful spreadsheets I created with readers. I utilized Excel 2007 to add features and add some automatic features unavailable in prior versions of Excel.</p> <p>Issue:<br /> When I upload my Excel 2007 file to my blog, everything seems fine and I get a link. I then go to the page I created for my excel tools and add the name/description of the spreadsheet, highlight the text and add a link, pasting in the link I got from the Media Library upload.</p> <p>When I go out and visit the site, all seems normal, but when I click on the link, instead of opening the file, it opens a directory which appears to contain a bunch of junk related to the Excel 2007 file. I cannot figure out how to make it so that the Excelt 2007 file simply opens (yes, I have Excel 2007 installed). </p> <p>I saved the filed down to Excel 2003 format and it work fine - clicking on the download link open up the Excel spreadsheet, not a directory.</p> <p>Examples can be found at: <a href="http://www.edwardhauder.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.edwardhauder.com</a> / Excelt Tools page</p> <p>Anyone else run into this issue with Excel 2007 files? Any easy way to work around this? Am I just missing somethign really easy?</p> <p>Thanks for the help,<br /> Ed </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272090#post-1287619 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:40:40 +0000 wwhitehead 1287619@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Not sure if this helps, but I was having a similar issue and in lieu of finding a plugin that solved this problem, I simply used the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/force-user-login/">Force User Login</a> plugin and then created a .htaccess file in my 'uploads' directory to prevent direct hot-linking to any file within that directory and its subdirectories <em>not</em> coming directly from my 'Members Only' site. This way, only logged in users can access content within the uploads directory, and only when directly linked from my site. Otherwise direct linking re-directs the user to another site. Does this make sense?</p> <p>Here's an example .htaccess file you'd want to create and place in your 'wp-content/uploads' directory:<br /> <pre><code>IndexIgnore * Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?myprotectedmemberssite\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !hotlink\.(gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx) [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx)$ <a href="http://yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://yahoo.com/</a> [NC]</code></pre> <p>In the above example the first line disables file directory listings (so no one can view the files in the 'uploads' or any of its subdirectories. The line with HTTP_REFERER makes sure linking to a particular file is coming from my site. The gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx) is a list of filetypes I want to prevent from being directly linked to (unless they are clicking from my site).</p> <p>Sorry this doesn't use a plugin to solve this (maybe I should write one?), but this seems to do the trick. Hope it helps. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/322621#post-1282459 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:12:52 +0000 Avrohom 1282459@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I have the same question. </p> <p>blog: <a href="http://choveveitzion.info/" rel="nofollow">http://choveveitzion.info/</a></p> <p>Does someone have an answer? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240432#post-1282413 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:33:08 +0000 adrianarmstrong 1282413@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm having the same issue. Wondering if anyone has figured out a fix for this yet?<br /> Thanks,<br /> Adrian </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/298156#post-1278494 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:43:37 +0000 johnyc 1278494@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>sorry esmi, it got published twice.<br /> not intentionally done.<br /> by the way it's resolved now. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288466#post-1276744 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:21 +0000 dlocc 1276744@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I wrote an article that may help some of those with wordpress uploading files to the wrong directory: <a href="http://www.dlocc.com/articles/wordpress-uploads-media-to-wrong-directory-solution/">Please check it out here!</a> </p> <p>Basically it says go to Settings &gt; Miscellaneous &gt; Upload media to directory... like Edmin's post says.</p> <p>Hope this helps! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288466#post-1275278 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:42 +0000 nostradamuszen 1275278@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>OK, even more confused - it seems to work now without FTPing the images beforehand - maybe it is just a caching issue? </p> <p>(Or maybe setting wp-content to 777 sorted it - will we ever know?) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288466#post-1275272 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:59:17 +0000 nostradamuszen 1275272@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Same problem here - none of the above hacks worked for me. Using a fresh install of Wordpress 2.8.5.</p> <p>Isn't this a <strong>MAJOR BUG</strong> in Wordpress?</p> <p>I tried setting permissions on all directories to 777, but still no luck.</p> <p>Hang on . . . I set permissions on wp-content to 777</p> <p>Then, I uploaded my images via Dreamweaver to uploads/2009/11 . . . </p> <p>Still no content when I went to the Library though.</p> <p>But, then, I found I *could* upload an image via the flash uploader.</p> <p>How bizarre is that???!!!</p> <p>It's a hack, Jim, but not as we know it!</p> <p>Cheers, Mark </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/324468#post-1270688 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:01:55 +0000 kilakiwi 1270688@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I am having the exact same problem, also on GoDaddy. Also tried uploading via Core FTP, tried using a video plugin, and tried adding it as a custom field. Nothing works! </p> <p>Anyone? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/328397#post-1270370 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:39:53 +0000 fondalashay 1270370@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hello!</p> <p>I am needing to allow my authors(and everyone below) to upload media, but not delete it. As some of them are not very tech savy and like to click, thus i am worried i will wake up one day to a bulk delete! </p> <p>I have the plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/">Capability Manager</a> but this only allows for uploads and does not have a button of deleting.</p> <p>Any help is welcomed and appreciated! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253778/page/2#post-1266901 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:42:19 +0000 johanl 1266901@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>WTF... stop telling people to set permissions to 777 !!!!</p> <p>It means that anyone logged in to the server can replace your uploaded pictures of your lovely family with pictures of god knows what!</p> <p>The last '7' of the three is the sum of the permissions read(4), write(2) and execute(1) for "others".</p> <p>Make sure the uploads directory and its sub directories have group ownership set to the apache users primary group (usually 'apache').</p> <p>Then chmod all directories to 770 (which means owner and group has read/write/execute rights on the directories).</p> <p>It's a good idea to create all directories manually for a couple of years ahead! With all the month directories as well.</p> <p>/johan </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253778/page/2#post-1265766 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:15:40 +0000 rachel@kathys 1265766@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks all you lovely people. Switching off organise my uploads, and manually creating wp-content/uploads and setting <strong>just this file</strong> to 777 has worked for me. </p> <p>Images are now uploading. </p>