Title: "Invalid Extension" failed upload Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # "Invalid Extension" failed upload * Resolved Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/) * Was able to upload several .eps files a couple of days ago. Today, I get the error: [filename].eps has invalid extension. Only pdf, doc, xls, ppt, txt, jpeg, psd, jpg, gif, png, docx, pptx, xslx, pps, zip, gz, gzip, mp3, aac, mp4, wav, wma, aif, aiff, ogg, flv, f4v, mov, avi, mkv, xvid, divx are allowed. * Exact same types of .eps file (vector are from Adobe Illustrator) saved the same way (as .eps, small in size), were successfully uploaded, still viewable and downloadable on site. Nothing has changed. Just can’t upload .eps anymore. * Ideas? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107769) * Have you spoken to your hosts about this? They may have started to block .eps uploads. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107796) * I am a third party in this site project.. I will pass along the question. * What’s odd is that PDF is not on the “only…allowed” list but I can upload those still, without error. * Thanks, esmi. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107797) * Correction; PDF is “allowed”. * Also just noticed, when looking at the site files via FTP, all (image/logo) uploads prior to a couple days ago have that 10-digit number before the file name, added by WordPress. Now, all of the many files uploaded in the last couple days, do not, and are named as uploaded. Additionally, some newer files have a two-digit number added to the file name, before the extension. There are no other files on the site with the same name, needing to be differentiated. * Not sure if that is relative, but odd that that is different as well. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107816) * > Additionally, some newer files have a two-digit number added to the file name, > before the extension. * They sound like duplicates renamed by WordPress but the former group with the 10 digit numbers definitely have not been renamed by WordPress. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107821) * Waiting to hear about host and any changes, but I am realizing that the change in file naming (perhaps the earlier numbers were a timestamp?) and the EPS upload problem have been evident only since I upgraded WP to the latest version, two weeks ago. Perhaps something that previously allowed for EPS uploads was overwritten? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107822) * No – nothing was changed regarding media file extensions. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107823) * But if the previous administrator of the site had edited a core file to allow for eps uploads, would that not have been overwritten with the upgrade? * It looks as if EPS is not an allowed file type. Side note, I am trying to upload an EPS (that can be downloaded) via Magic Fields. Yet, I get the same invalid ext error when trying to go through the Media Library. * While an older post, I did find this: [http://itswordpress.com/featured/add-additional-file-types-to-wordpress-media-library/](http://itswordpress.com/featured/add-additional-file-types-to-wordpress-media-library/) * Thank you for your feedback, emsi. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107824) * > But if the previous administrator of the site had edited a core file to allow > for eps uploads, would that not have been overwritten with the upgrade? * Yes – which is one reason why you should **never** edit core files. Another being that that you could compromise the security of your site. * You can add a filter to ‘upload_mimes’ to make certain file types able to be uploaded. * ``` add_filter('upload_mimes','demo'); function demo($mimes) { $mimes = array( 'eps' => 'application/eps', ); return $mimes; } ``` * Note that this will only affect users without the unfiltered_upload capability. Admins and people with unfiltered_upload can upload anything they want by default. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 10322432 * (@anonymized-10322432) * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107836) * Not being comfortable with editing/code, is did locate this plugin which, while I cannot upload the EPS files as before via Magic Fields (still error), I can upload via the Media Library and simply link to them via URL. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/manage-upload-types/screenshots/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/manage-upload-types/screenshots/) * Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘"Invalid Extension" failed upload’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [eps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/eps/) * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: Anonymous User 10322432 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-extension-failed-upload/#post-3107836) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics