No more free temporary texture uploads?

[Josh Susanto]

As of last night Imprudence crashes when I try to load ANY texture.

Reinstallations have not fixed this.

SL viewer 2 loads permanent, but not temporary.

Unless this "bug" is fixed, it's going to increase my operational costs by at least 100%.

Is it intentional?

 

[Ishtara Rothschild]

Did you already try Phoenix? The Phoenix viewer allows temporary uploads too.

[Josh Susanto]

Trying that now, thanks.

Other problem is that textures loaded permanently on SL2 did not transfer from alt account to main account.

That doesn't seem to me like it could be an Imprudence problem.

 

[Josh Susanto]

Phoenix also crashed.

This is beginning to fulfill my prophecy from last year that free temporary uploads will eventually be thwarted by LL, regardless of how amicably they speak about preferred 3rd party viewers.

[Void Singer]

works fine for me in phoenix build 908.... I suspect that something on your end may be corrupted.

[Qwalyphi Korpov]

The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement.

[Rolig Loon]

Phoenix (977) temporary uploads have been working fine for me too.  You have a local problem.

[Void Singer]

 

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Josh Susanto wrote:

This is beginning to fulfill my prophecy from last year that free temporary uploads will eventually be thwarted by LL, regardless of how amicably they speak about preferred 3rd party viewers.

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PS
The method by which free temp uploads are achieved could not be blocked by SL , without a huge server end rewrite and large chunks of bandwidth permanently used to check validity... so, not gonna happen.

 

[Claireschen Hesten]

check that you don't have VBO enabled in Prefs > Graphics > Hardware options, you might also want to make sure you don't have HTTPget textures on too if your using phoenix it will be i page 2 of the phoenix tab in prefs disabling these two has been known to cure crashing on paid and temp uploads

[Peewee Musytari]

I don`t know about Imprudence but as you are on Phoenix there is also Local textures, accessed from your texture selector in edit, where you can test textures direct from your HD without uploading at all. This may be a good workaround for you until you resolve the issue.

I agree with disabling VBO thing, I crash on uploads if I enable that.

[Josh Susanto]

Just as mysteriously as it began, the problem has ended.

I had not enabled anything or otherewise changed any settings.

It just happened for about 16 hours and then stopped.

It just creeped me out because I had always expected something like it to happen more permanently, and I still do.

[Josh Susanto]

And now, naturally, without having changed anything, it is happening again.

[Josh Susanto]

And stopped again... or did it?

If someone is reading this and flipping a switch somewhere, I guess I need to keep him confused.

 

[Void Singer]

I'd do a cache wipe... it's good odds that you've got something corrupted in there.

[Josh Susanto]

That's on my list of try-me's, thanks.

After repeatedly examining every step that leads to a succesful upload and every step that leads to an unsuccessful upload, I have found only one clear difference.

1) An image produced by Pixenate crashes 3rd party viewers when selected for loading.

2) The same image produced by Pixenate, but then put through Lunapic and reproduced as a Lunapic product DOES NOT crash 3rd party viewers.

I'm still having some other problems with SL, such as transfer failures and incredibly long delays in getting the contents tab to open on my magic box, but the only thing I see as clearly persistent is the Pixenate issue.

I can vouch for the safety and utility of Lunapic, but it doesn't like to do certain things with images larger than 1000x1000, so I recently started using Pixenate for cropping (again) after I realized it would actually work on the new version of Firefox.

Oddly, I didn't have this issue with images cropped with Pixenate while using Google Chrome, but I immediately stopped using Lunapic and Pixenate on Google Chrome when I realized that both sites somehow keep kicking image dimensions down to the next smallest odd number on each side when used with Google Chrome (try it if you don't believe me). I can only guess that this is some subtle way that Google has decided to prevent images from being endlessly copied without data loss.

Summary advice:

1) Use Firefox rather than Google Chrome for online image editing.

2) Always do the last edit with Lunapic.

[Peewee Musytari]

Plus its the weekend and the janitor is off duty so all the crud piles up and makes the grid do weird stuff

[Void Singer]

if I were ambitious I'd check the image file header for those files come from from pixenate, and notify the developers if I saw something that dodn't look right.... but I don't use it, and I'm not ambitious....

[Josh Susanto]

I have always had my doubts about the site for other reasons.

If It wasn't the easiest way to cut a 3kx3k image into 1024x1024 chunks, I wouldn't even go there.

[Nefertiti Nefarious]

Use the test grid for now. It's "Aditi" on the list of SL networks to log into. Or use Phoenix.

[Mercedes Avon]

I haven't been able to upload textures for 2 days now, temporary or otherwise. I don't crash, but get an error message staing their server is experience difficulties and to try again later. Last weekend was the same. Started on Friday and did not start working again until Monday.

[Void Singer]

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Mercedes Avon wrote:

I haven't been able to upload textures for 2 days now, temporary or otherwise. I don't crash, but get an error message staing their server is experience difficulties and to try again later. Last weekend was the same. Started on Friday and did not start working again until Monday.

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that's often caused by the region being slow... usually moving to a different region will allow you to upload... you see the same thing with script/notecard saves.

[Mercedes Avon]

 

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Void Singer wrote:

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Mercedes Avon wrote:

I haven't been able to upload textures for 2 days now, temporary or otherwise. I don't crash, but get an error message staing their server is experience difficulties and to try again later. Last weekend was the same. Started on Friday and did not start working again until Monday.

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that's often caused by the region being slow... usually moving to a different region will allow you to upload... you see the same thing with script/notecard saves.

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Thank you for the advice. I will try a new region and see if that fixes my issue.

 

[Josh Susanto]

The problem occurred in multiple regions and multiple accounts on both Phoenix and Imprudence.

I haven't tested the problem textures again today yet.

If I post one of them somewhere, should the problem also post with it ?

I'm not technical enough to know how that works, but if that's how it works, how close could we then be to identifying the problem?