Posting photos with a classified ad

[larryb]

I've posted an ad through the Classifieds site but have been unable to include my jpeg photos with the ad. I get an error message saying that is an unacceptable file format. My photos are in "my pictures" library of Windows.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Larryb

79 280 AZ and 72 240Z

[Mikes Z car]

Can you maneuver to the file on your computer that you want to upload to see the file extension for it? Also it may be too large or have to much resolution see allowed sizes I found below. The first part of this info I found at the bottom of a blog post I did, the allowed file sizes showed up when I went to upload a file to the blog.

Valid file extensions: bmp com doc dwg dxf gif jpe jpeg jpg pdf png pps psd swf txt xls zip

Filetype Max File-size Max Width Max Height

bmp 1.91 MB 1024 768

com - - -

doc 1.00 MB - -

dwg 1.00 MB - -

dxf 1.00 MB - -

gif 1.91 MB 1281 1025

jpe 1.91 MB 1281 1025

jpeg 1.91 MB 1281 1025

jpg 1.91 MB 1281 1025

pdf 10.00 MB - -

png 1.91 MB 1281 1025

pps 1.00 MB - -

psd 1.91 MB - -

swf 1.00 MB - -

txt 1.00 MB - -

xls 1.00 MB - -

zip 1.00 MB -

[larryb]

Thanks Mike,

The size of the files does not seem to be the problem. My photos are in the 2 - 3 MB each range and the ad can accept up to 128 MB of photos.

The error message says it is not an "acceptable format". My photos were taken with my iphone and uploaded to "my library - pictures", jpeg format on my computer. They uploaded without a problem to my Craigslist ad.

Larryb

[Mikes Z car]

I may be missing something but your picture files appear to be too large. The 128 MB I imagine is the sum total maximum of all pictures uploaded for the ad but each individual JPG can only be 1.91 MB if the info I got off of my blog is still accurate. Assuming I am following you try resizing one of your JPG pictures to less than 1.91 MB and see if it will upload. That won't affect the viewing quality much. In windows the picture viewer will do that but it has been a while since I actually did that with windows, someone else might have to chime in on that. If the horizontal resolution is greater than 1281 it needs to be made smaller than 1282. On a Mac the preview program with OSX 10.58 has a tab that can be clicked called tools which reveals a size button to resize. Both horizontal and vertical resolution will be shown and new numbers can be typed in so neither exceeds the maximum, normally I just type in a new horizontal number and the vertical number is fine then. Then when saving the quality of the JPG can be adjusted with a slider with a readout showing the resulting file size if the file is saved at that point to ensure not going beyond the 19.1 limit. Hope this helps.

[larryb]

Mike - I rescaled a photo to 1280 pixcells and still got the error message "unacceptable file format" which is jpeg - go figure.

Anyway, I posted my Craigslist ad URL to my ad so people can link to that to see the photos of my car.

Time to call it a day and pull the cork on a nice bottle of Merlot.

Thanks,

larryb

[Mikes Z car]

Don't bogart that bottle, my friend, pass it over to me...