Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I'm getting this error about 2/3 of the time when trying to upload an .flv. Once a file has been rejected, it won't upload. I'm wondering if it's something subtle in the files themselves.
This occurs in both Firefox & IE 7, and I don't know what the problem with the files may be as they all play fine in VLC. I'm not certain that this is an issue with Flash Node, but any suggestions would be welcomed.
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Comment #1
Bricks and Clicks MarketingWould the upload speed strongly affect things? Or could there be an issue with the connection? I just ran a speedtest and my upload is 105k, about half what it usually is. I'll be able to check this further on Sunday when I have access to a T3.
Comment #2
Stuart Greenfield commentedI have seen this happen when uploading very large files (files larger than your upload limit). The upload starts, but then fails. As a result flashnode never gets the file and thinks nothing was supplied, hence the error.
It could be that - when you say 2/3 files work, are the ones that fail particularly big?
Check your upload limit, or try uploading small files and then larger and larger ones to see if it begins to fail above a certain size.
If the error is truly intermittent then it could be a host error. If you can upload some but not others it would tend to suggest the problem isn't with flashnode itself.
Hope this helps.
Comment #3
Bricks and Clicks MarketingStuart,
Thanks very much for a prompt response. All the files are between 996k and 3.9mb, and the ones that were successful were between 1.4mb & 2.0mb. Some of the smaller ones failed. I have some suspicions about my host and/or my connection. My FTP connection dropped a couple of times in the past hour, and my connection has been a bit slower than usual. I'll try some systematic uploads by size tomorrow and see if there's a limit involved.
Arp
Comment #4
Bricks and Clicks MarketingI systematically uploaded files today, starting with the smallest and moving up. You are right - it is an upload limit. The last successful file was 2,030kb and the first failure was 2,079kb, so the upload limit must be 2,048kb. I'll try editing the .htaccess file (I'm on shared hosting and don't have access to php.ini) and hope for the best. The client I'm building the site for should have dedicated hosting, so I'm hopeful that this will not be an issue when the site is live.
Comment #5
Stuart Greenfield commentedI am going to set this issue to closed as it sounds like it was upload related, rather than strictly being flashnode related.