I am crashing every time I try to upload a photo. Why and how do I fix it?

[Camille Smythe]

Title pretty much says it all :)

 

However, I crash every time I try to upload a photo.  Help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Camille

[CassieMaia]

Hi Camille.

You didn't say what operating system you are on or which viewer you are using, but this sounds a lot like an issue I had on my Mac, using Firestorm.  I fixed it by changing the way I was displaying the contents in the directory I was uploading the photos from on my Mac.  Once I changed the directory to display the contents in a list format, I was able to upload photos without it causing the viewer to crash.

If you aren't using a Mac, hopefully someone else will have some information that will be applicable to your system.

 

ETA:  If you need to add more information to your original post, there is a choice for editting your post under the Options dropdown (top right corner of your post).

[Rolig Loon]

CassieMaia has probably nailed it exactly as a Mac issue.  You'll find more about it here >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/mac_crash_upload

[ireneHF]

my profile is crashing whenever i try to upload a new pic .

i'm on a laptop, it was fine before i was forced to update it.

[ireneHF]

found a solution to my problem. you have like 10 seconds to find the pic you want, and upoad it. i managed this. but if you aren't quick enough it'll crash your profile and you have to start again. it's like pic load has a limited amount of time.

[Rolig Loon]

That's not a limit in SL. It's most likely an overload limit in your laptop or its graphics card (if it even has a graphics card rather than a simpler chip on the motherboard). If you try to do too many graphics-intensive things and your system isn't built to handle the load, it will start shutting down offending applications to save itself from overheating.

[ireneHF]

It could be that i guess but i'm  managing to upload pics to my profile no problem using this site, despite SL running in the background. this is the best way to do it.

 

Think i'm done in this topic now, thanks OP.

[Seralath]

Thank you CassieMaia, I had this same issue and im running an iMac, as soon as I change the display to list it worked, this has been an issue baffling me for about two weeks, such an simple fix in the end lol