Attachments - allowed file types?

[davids45]

G'day,

I'm trying to send a Personal Message Reply to which I want to attach several (well, 12) text files, plus two jpgs.

I cannot find a Forum acceptable file extension for attachments.

I've tried .txt, .tar.xz, .zip, no extension, even .jpg, and none get past the 'Add files' censor.

The FAQ says the Administrator sets the rules for acceptable file attachments but a 'Search' for allowed files types of the forum seemed unsuccessful.

Where should I look for the rule on this?

Thanks.

David S.

[MochiMoppel]

Where should I look for the rule on this?

In the "All Supported Types" dropdown list after pushing "Add files" button. [mention]rockedge[/mention] may want to customize the list. Fake extensions still seem to work. Check my PM.

PM-filetypes.png (4.04 KiB) Viewed 771 times

[MochiMoppel]

[mention]rockedge[/mention] Attachments in PMs are still problematic. Would be great if you could fix this. All file types allowed for public messages should also be allowed for private messages. Apart from JPG and PNG types I also suggest to allow SVG and XPM types. The latter are text files and usually smaller than comparable binary image files.
Thanks for looking into this.

[rockedge]

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention]

good idea, I will look into bringing this up to speed!

Update: FIXED

Please test and report.

[bigpup]

Attachments in general to posts.

I am getting this:

Error

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

[taersh]

Attachments in general to posts.

I am getting this:

Error

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

Yes, that's what I've got a few hours ago when trying to attach a .jpg image - it was a screenshot of content of /usr/local/lib/X11/themes/Ardis, which I tried to attach to this post: viewtopic.php?p=1784#p1784.
I tried several times using .png and .jpg. Tried also by reducing image width smaller than 800 pixel. None worked, always the error message returned.

[rockedge]

[mention]bigpup[/mention],

My bad! Thanks for pointing that out. I still had the 50 meg limit set as I was first working with this site.
I have increased it accordingly.

[MochiMoppel]

This "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached." is what I experienced yesterday when I tried to attach screenshots with the "wrong" extension. Tried .png, then .jpg (both triggering error "Invalid file extension"), and when I finally tried to upload a JPG with a fake .mp3 extension, I received this bogus quota error. Verified again today with a different browser: After 3 "wrong" extensions nothing can be uploaded anymore.

Another case: Tried to PM rockedge, quoting his above post: Attaching a .gif file was OK. Tried "Preview" and received error "You cannot use certain BBCodes: [mention]." Removed the [mention] tags from the post and tried again: Same error. Removed whole text and reveived something like "Too few characters". Added some text and tried to upload a XPM file. Didn't work. No error message anymore. "Add" button becomes unresponsive. End of story

[rockedge]

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention]
Hmmm I just adjusted the settings. Is it still unresponsive?

[rockedge]

the /etc/apache2 directory

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[rockedge]

trying 32bit PET for DOSBox

[MochiMoppel]

Let's see:
Tried again XPM. Error messagee:"It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image. Please verify that the URL you entered is correct.". "Add files" button remains responsive. The other error messages described before may have lead to not letting this new dimension error come through and thus block the button. Whatever, it's not working as expected.

[rockedge]

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention] ,

Thank you for the report. Is it only the .xpm files throwing errors?

[MochiMoppel]

Same error with SVG

[rockedge]

arri_lamp.xpm.gz

(72.82 KiB) Downloaded 48 times

puppy.svg.gz

(662 Bytes) Downloaded 48 times

[rockedge]

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention]

this might be it. https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-15359

I have tried other fixes but no joy. Odd problem, the servers php is v7.2 and everything is configured correctly.

[MochiMoppel]

@MochiMoppel

this might be it. https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-15359

Looks like an unrelated and fixed issue. Let's try to upload a small 100x67 JPG with an Exif size stated as 2400x1600. Seems to work.

ascaled.jpg (45.6 KiB) Viewed 714 times

The phpBB SW seems to have fixed the issue by removing some Exif data. Exif of the uploaded pic:
Camera make     : PENTAX Corporation
Camera model     : PENTAX K100D      
Image timestamp : 2018:12:21 12:40:33
Exposure time   : 1/45 s
Aperture         : F4
Exposure bias   : 0 EV
Flash           : Yes, compulsory
Focal length     : 31.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 46.0 mm)
ISO speed       : 200
Exposure mode   : Auto
Metering mode   : Multi-segment
Exif Resolution : 2400 x 1600
White balance   : Auto
Thumbnail       : image/jpeg, 5120 Bytes

When downloading the posted pic the "Exif Resolution" line is missing.

Just detected another great feature: I can send PMs to myself. Helps to test and explore PM function.
Also detected a new barrier: I tried to attach 2 tiny gif files, but the second failed with message
Cannot add another attachment, 1 is the maximum.
Really?

[bigpup]

test.

external-content.duckduckgo.com.jpeg (31.11 KiB) Viewed 689 times

The attachment process seems to be back to normal.
However you are now testing features I have not used.
Anyway, I can attach a image, again.

[rockedge]

Attaching 2 small gif files

cool.gif (696 Bytes) Viewed 669 times

happy.gif (699 Bytes) Viewed 669 times

[Geoffrey]

Good source of SVG Emoji's https://getemoji.com

[MochiMoppel]

Attaching 2 small gif files

Sure, now try this in a Private Message.

Apparent limits for regular users in
Private Message: 1 attachment
Public Post: 3 attachments

[rockedge]

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention]

Just increased to 7 for post and PM.

[MochiMoppel]

Thanks.
What is the max file size per attachment?

[MochiMoppel]

Good source of SVG Emoji's https://getemoji.com

[mention]Geoffrey[/mention] Nice, and they don't count as attachments, but how do you know that these are SVG emojis? What this site offers and what you posted are Unicode characters. When I quote your post I see blocks because none of my fonts can display these characters. Now the fascinating part: The forum software replaces these (for most users undisplayable) characters with SVGs it fetches from twitter's site twemoji.maxcdn.com/. You can see the URLs of these SVGs only when you take a look at the page source.

This can become useful. Here are 6 characters of the Unicode block "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs" with their biggest possible size of 200:

Unicode codepoints and names:
U+1F3E0 HOUSE BUILDING
U+1F3E1 HOUSE WITH GARDEN
U+1F3E2 OFFICE BUILDING
U+1F3E3 JAPANESE POST OFFICE
U+1F3E4 EUROPEAN POST OFFICE
U+1F3E5 HOSPITAL

Fetching their URL from the page source will display them really big. Let's take the second character as an example.:

[rockedge]

What is the max file size per attachment?

For now ->
4 MiB is the max file size for posts
10 MiB for private messages

[stemsee]

Is the maximum image resolution/size the same?

[MochiMoppel]

[mention]stemsee[/mention] See viewtopic.php?f=139&t=385
Seems that big images are automatically scaled to fit the width of the forum text area

[stemsee]

So it does ... "moonrise_erie-co-large.png (625.43 KiB) Viewed 62 times"

[rockedge]

Is the maximum image resolution/size the same?

the max image size is 1200px X 800px
any size larger the forum will display a text link to the image.

[rockedge]

Hello !!

Now SFS files can be attached to posts without having to alter the extension!

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