long image names

  • Ron5

    (@ron5)


    10 years ago

    The Nextgen Gallery plugin generates sometimes very long names for some pictures that are taken up into a gallery. For instance, where the original name is 10 characters long, it becomnes a 100 characters long for an image in a gallery. Taking a backup is no longer possible because of the long names.

    How to avoid long names for images in a gallery?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    10 years ago

    @ron5 – This may be a limitation in your back-up application as a 100 character path length is well within standard limits for most any environment.

    Have you tried different back-up methods?

    – Cais.

    Thread Starter Ron5

    (@ron5)

    10 years ago

    I use the BackWPup plugin. A backup with zip compression just gets blocked.
    A backup with tar compression results in the error message: “the following names …. are too long to backup.” I have not tried any other plugin yet. Can you recommend me another free one?

    Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    10 years ago

    @ron5 – We do offer this article related to creating back-ups … https://www.imagely.com/docs/how-do-i-create-a-full-backup-of-my-site/ … it may be of use for you to consider the methods there.

    I would also suggest contacting your web hosting service to see why they are blocking methods that use zip compression.

    Thanks!

    – Cais.

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