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For the last several days, I have been unable to upload a photo to the gallery or my portfolio. It started out being spotty, I could upload after several tries, but now, not at all. As soon as I go to "browse" the site shuts down completely. I have uploaded to two other sites, so I know it's not my program. I can view all the photos, and comment without difficulty. It is only when I try to upload that this happens. Sometimes it even shuts down my internet connection. Does anyone have any idea what is happening? I really miss not being able to exchange views on my photos. Thank you, Joline
Sounds more like there is a problem with the directory that you are browsing for the image.
Do not see how accesing the upload page alone could cause the PC to shut down.
When you browse and have the problem is it a particular file that when selected causes the problem?
Hmm, that's why I was wondering if the first file in the directory is corrupt, was hoping one of the ePZ techies would have helped you by now as I had time to drive 190 miles since my last post.
So I'll post to bump it back up the list and hope someone else can shed some light.
Or use the report errors button at the bottom of the screen
csurry is right, we have hundreds of people that are able to upload every day without a problem so it seems that the problem is more to do with your PC rather than the website.
From what is sounds like to me, is possibly a memory leak or a corrupted file on your PC. I would suggest downloading and running Spybot Search & Destroy as often, spyware/adware can cause problems like this. Secondly, run a Defrag.
How to Defrag
Spybot Search & Destroy
Needless to say, its also important to have an up-to-date anti-virus installed on your computer as its quite easy to get a virus these days through email or other websites. The common mistake people make however is that they have an up-to-date anti-virus, but they never schedule it to run. I suggest running the anti-virus AT LEAST once a month, but recommend once a week. Its well worth it rather than having your computer infected and lose your data on your computer.
Hopefully, some of this will help.
Im moving this topic to the Computers forum as hopefully some of the other Techheads can help out on this.
If Spybot doesn't do the job you can grit your teeth and shell out the massive sum of £15 for SpyNoMore.
It has successfully removed malware, which SpyBot and AdAware failed to do, and which has been proving a bit of a problem for me recently. It is the only one of the many anti-spyware software progs that offers a customised service, where the staff will actually write a fix for you if all else fails.
But do try SpyBot in the first instance. It may be all you need. It's all I've ever needed until recently.
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