This photo momentarily not available

[DirtyLittlePuppy]

I have one image that keeps giving me the This photo momentarily not available error when trying to view it. I have deleted and reloaded it numerus times, renamed the image, remade the image from scratch... thumbs show okay, the pictures files are there in the appropriate folders, but nothing will make that image available. Only this one image is giving trouble, others uploaded since have been fine.

When I uploaded it originally it seemed like the server might have had a problem at that ame time, but I would think deleting and upoading again should overcome any problems like that. Any ideas?

[DirtyLittlePuppy]

I finally got my picture to show by pasting it into a new image in Photoshop CS, leaving behind all the EXIF data. Any thoughts on this, Pekka?

[Scho]

I haven't looked at my site or modified it in any way for quite awhile. Today, when I click on any thumb in the browser ALL of my images give this same message:
"This photo momentarily not available."

Any ideas what happened?

[Scho]

Also, in the photo editor no thumbs or microthumbs are visible (not found). Checked the paths and they all seem to be OK. I just don't know what caused this or how to fix it. Should I just do a database restore?

[Pekka]

First step is to set misc settings "When image file is not found" to 1 (let browser handle...)

Second step is to check if no one changed image folder or image file permissions.

[Scho]

Thanks Pekka. I set "When image is not found" to 1 and that fixed the problem. It was previously set to 3. Image folders are all set to permissions dwxrwxr-x (is this 777?).

[Pekka]

Thanks Pekka. I set "When image is not found" to 1 and that fixed the problem. It was previously set to 3.

Good. The problem must have been that someone upgraded PHP and there is a new bug in function getimagesize(). Nothing new - that has always been the buggiest funtion out there. It never liked EXIF and profile data in images, that is why EE upload system should be set to "remove profiles".

Image folders are all set to permissions dwxrwxr-x (is this 777?).

No that is 775 which means
Owner can read/write/execute
Group can read/write/execute
Public can read or execute

Usually 755 is enough for image folders.

EE ftp will set the most secure setting for images: 644. This means practically read-only permissions.

[Scho]

Thanks Pekka. I set "When image is not found" to 1 and that fixed the problem. It was previously set to 3.

Good. The problem must have been that someone upgraded PHP and there is a new bug in function getimagesize(). Nothing new - that has always been the buggiest funtion out there. It never liked EXIF and profile data in images, that is why EE upload system should be set to "remove profiles".

Image folders are all set to permissions dwxrwxr-x (is this 777?).

No that is 775 which means
Owner can read/write/execute
Group can read/write/execute
Public can read or execute

Usually 755 is enough for image folders.

EE ftp will set the most secure setting for images: 644. This means practically read-only permissions.

Thanks for the info Pekka. I have ftp upload set to remove profiles, but I think that there are some older images in the galleries that were uploaded manually quite awhile ago that do still have profiles.

[DirtyLittlePuppy]

Pekka,
Setting when image file is not found to "1" seems to disable muliarea navigation.