Title: Error in file upload.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error in file upload.

 *  Resolved [Nicki Faulk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitallica/)
 * (@nitallica)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-file-upload/)
 * I’m trying to upload my theme to the Theme Directory and I keep getting this 
   error message:
 * > Error in file upload.
 * There’s no other helpful information.
 * Has anyone else encountered this?

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 *  Thread Starter [Nicki Faulk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitallica/)
 * (@nitallica)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-file-upload/#post-865576)
 * Apparently there’s a file size limit. I had screenshots of styles and options
   included and these made the file quite large. Once I deleted those the file size
   went from 3mb to 220k and it uploaded fine.
 * So, just FYI …

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 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nicki Faulk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitallica/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-file-upload/#post-865576)
 * Status: resolved

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