I'm forever having trouble bulk uploading photos. After clicking upload, the I get a The connection was reset page after a few minutes.

Anyone else have this problem? Id there a fix? :surrender:

Yes, happens to me if I try to upload my pictures without editing them.
Try reducing the size of the pics to about 2000 pixels on the longest edge.

Have also experienced similar problems if I try and upload 20 photos, so now I tend to do 5 at a time, this is after I have resized my photos to half size also, that is 1980 pixels long in my case.

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Cheers guys. Seems that i can upload them one by one without resizing, or simply resize them and batch upload them.

From an admin point of view, it would be handy if images were resized before uploading as *massive* files take up a lot of server space, which does have a financial cost.

That's not to say that there is a problem with space, but given that the max size that can be displayed on most screens is no more than 2,000 pixels (approx), any images uploaded that are greater than this size aren't going to gain anything by being that large.

Basically, 2,000 pixels is fine, but anything significantly larger is not going to be appreciably better.

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No problem, will resize with my next bulk export out of lightroom.

Means I won't have to upload them all individually too 🙂

Ay, Vanoord's explanation is correct.

Basically there's a fininte amount of time a web server will let you stay connected doing "something" for. And 20 x 16 mega pixel / straight off the camera shots is probably going to exceed this.

I throw mine up at 2400x1600 with just a bit of optimisation; this means there's a biggish version of the image sat on the server from which all the different sizes are generated so all sizes (thumbnail, mid-size and supersize) are nice and sharp.

The only quality issues are when people upload very small images; e.g. 800x600 (which we'd once have considered big!!) and then the supersize script delivers them at 1600x1200 so the quality is lower than you'd want.

Massive images (e.g. straight off the camera 4000x3000) take up a huge amount of disc space, which together with the managed tape backups run every night is very expensive to host. And to be honest those sizes really aren't needed for delivering over the web.

So anything around the 2000px wide (or 2000px high if portrait format) mark, will be fine.

You'll also find they upload much faster; double the dimensions of and image and you much more than double the file size.

Hope that helps 🙂

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