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Old 10-20-2018, 08:27 PM   #1
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Anybody else having this problem.....

In the past I’ve been able to upload pictures to the forum off my iPad by accessing my photo album and selecting the pictures to upload. Yesterday I tried uploading some pics with no success and received the following msg.:
"We're sorry, but you may only upload image files (with an extension of .gif or .jpg). Please go back and select a different file.

I am confident it’s not an Apple issue because I can still upload pictures at the PCA Boxster Registry forum.

Any assistance you could provide will be greatly appreciated.
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Old 01-02-2019, 05:30 AM   #2
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In the past I’ve been able to upload pictures to the forum off my iPad by accessing my photo album and selecting the pictures to upload. Yesterday I tried uploading some pics with no success and received the following msg.:
"We're sorry, but you may only upload image files (with an extension of .gif or .jpg). Please go back and select a different file.

I am confident it’s not an Apple issue because I can still upload pictures at the PCA Boxster Registry forum.

Any assistance you could provide will be greatly appreciated.
I’m also having this problem with my iPad and iPhone with this site only. Pic uploads work perfectly on my other forum sites (except for the R1100s forum also hosted by Pelican).

I’ve tried everything (resizing, IOS settings, etc.). The problems started for me when Apple went to their new image storage format (HEIC). No problem when I upload via Tapatalk but I don’t like the Tapatalk forum interface.
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Old 03-25-2019, 04:25 AM   #3
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I’m also having this problem with my iPad and iPhone with this site only. Pic uploads work perfectly on my other forum sites (except for the R1100s forum also hosted by Pelican).

I’ve tried everything (resizing, IOS settings, etc.). The problems started for me when Apple went to their new image storage format (HEIC). No problem when I upload via Tapatalk but I don’t like the Tapatalk forum interface.
Is this fixed I also can’t upload from my iPad?
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Is this fixed I also can’t upload from my iPad?
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Dont know if its fixed but the issue results from the file format. You can download a file converter from the apple to jpeg for example.
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Dont know if its fixed but the issue results from the file format. You can download a file converter from the apple to jpeg for example.
I’ve tried four different iPad file converters, none of the HEIC files converted to jpeg will upload to any Pelican board unless I use Tapatalk. No problems on any other board. This issue has existed for at least a year now. Pelican needs to fix their upload interface.
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I guess IPhones and their photos are an oddity

So, can someone PLEASE explain WHY in the heck, one of the most common ways to take photos, is not an accepted format or methodology of uploading photos to this forum????? Are IPhones that odd of a phone that someone thinks they are a fad???

We shouldn’t have to do gymnastics or convert files, WHEN THEY ARE RIGHT THERE ON OUR PHONES. Every other forum I use, both Porsche and non Porsche related, make uploading photos from an iPad/iPhone seamless. Easy!!!

I would love to participate more with postings and provide feedback with photos, but don’t because of the hassle of doing a secret handshake to upload a photo taken with my iPhone. Might as well as get out my Kodak 110 camera, take pictures, develop them and then scan them for uploading via my PC, hooked to my scanner.

Let’s get with the times and make it as easy as possible to upload, for the betterment of this forum.

Anybody want to see what happens when a piece of chain rail breaks off and gets lodged in the scavenger sprocket? Have a great thread planned on rebuilding a 2.7 head, with LOTS of pictures. But........
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So, can someone PLEASE explain WHY in the heck, one of the most common ways to take photos, is not an accepted format or methodology of uploading photos to this forum????? Are IPhones that odd of a phone that someone thinks they are a fad???

We shouldn’t have to do gymnastics or convert files, WHEN THEY ARE RIGHT THERE ON OUR PHONES. Every other forum I use, both Porsche and non Porsche related, make uploading photos from an iPad/iPhone seamless. Easy!!!

I would love to participate more with postings and provide feedback with photos, but don’t because of the hassle of doing a secret handshake to upload a photo taken with my iPhone. Might as well as get out my Kodak 110 camera, take pictures, develop them and then scan them for uploading via my PC, hooked to my scanner.

Let’s get with the times and make it as easy as possible to upload, for the betterment of this forum.

Anybody want to see what happens when a piece of chain rail breaks off and gets lodged in the scavenger sprocket? Have a great thread planned on rebuilding a 2.7 head, with LOTS of pictures. But........
Are you trying to upload from the mobile site or full site?
Have you tried both upload methods shown in my screenshot below?

For reference, I just took, edited and uploaded this screenshot with an iPhone 6s on the full site using the upload option that the lower arrow is pointing to:
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