New improved Attachment Manager
 

I'm happy to announce that we are now testing out a much improved advanced version of our Attachment Manager used for uploading your files.
We've done extensive testing of it and now I'd like you all to try it out and give us your feedback. :)

The best new features include:

• Select multiple files at once. Still limited to 10 attachments per post
• Live upload statistics so you can view the progress of your uploads.

If the feedback we get is positive, we'll make this a permanent option for uploading your files.
If people are having trouble with the advanced Attachment Manager, the basic Attachment Manager is still available.

To try out the new version, Just look for the button that says:
Attachment Manager [Advanced version]

Please let us know what you think.

Thanks,

- I like the idea, particularly the progress indicator. Just tried to upload a .jpg and a .flv and got IO Server Error each of three tries.

Old basic version worked fine.

Thanks for the feedback.
Can you share what browser and operating system you are using?
This might help us with pinpointing problems and making fixes.

Thanks,

This new advanced version of the Attachment Manager does rely on Abobe Flash.
Updating to the latest version of Adobe Flash may possibly resolve upload issues for anyone having trouble.

Thanks,

I Like it
 

Definately feels much quicker and works like a dream. I like it

... works great!
 

niiice, I have been waiting for this

Works very well indeed - adobe crashed once - but otherwise a great improvement:)

yes, I do love it:p

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Please keep it coming.

We appreciate hearing about your success or any potential problems with this new advanced version of the Attachment Manager so we can continue to make improvements.

I think member's who often post large files will benefit from this the most.

Try it out and keep posting.:)

Thanks,

infinitely better!!! Thanks!!!

Worked perfectly for me.

It's Fantastic - THANKS
 

Thanks great upgrade

Once again, thanks for all the feedback. We want to here it all. Good, bad or indifferent. It all helps.

If the response to this new advanced Attachment Manager is positive overall, I'm pleased to announce that an updated version of the photo album uploader is also in the works. Just imagine being able to select up to 200 photos at one time to upload into an album. It would sure beat selecting them one at a time. :cool:

Thanks,

only issue I am having is that each time I browse for the pics, the uploader opens up to an old folder and not the last one I used to upload, though that may be my browsers fault. I love the new uploader, it makes things a lot easier and faster, hope I dont run out of pics to post. Only thing left to do is add a drag and drop uploader, then its all over....:p

hi alex.

the good: it seems to work without a hitch (i will try it more extensively this weekend). the downside to flash would be a future requirement to upgrade, which i would not be able to do as i am on an old laptop/os.

the bad: the old interface works best for batch uploading images which are not in sequence. (eg. 01.jpg followed by 05.jpg, 03.jpg, etc.) i tend to do this a lot and would be sad to see the feature go.

in any case, great work so far!

The new uploader also seems to upload faster (although maybe that's just that I don't have to guess how long something's taking to load up anymore).

This is INCREDIBLY helpful, though; it cuts the time it take to make a post way, way down. I'm not sure what other people's "systems" are for organizing and posting, so I can only speak for myself, but this is a really good addition.

One thing: the heading in my browser tab still calls it the "basic" version even though I'm using the advanced. This isn't really a problem, but from an organizational standpoint it might be confusing for someone, I guess.

Either way, really nice work with this!

I agree with you! It seems/feels faster...
So far I didn't find anything negative with the new uploader.

Good job OCC!!!

We have no plans to get rid of the orignal (basic) Attachment Manager because we understand many people may still use it if their system isn't compatible with the advanced version. We plan on keeping both so the choice is up to each individual member which version they prefer.


Thanks for pointing that out. We have corrected the text now.

Thanks,

Having used both I will probably stick with the basic for most of my needs, but I can appreciate how a lot of people will like the newer one.

I haven't really noticed if there is a speed difference or not, although since I have a 100mb+ connection I am probably not really going to notice a huge difference.

The reason I will probably stick with the older version is due to having to drill through my file structure to find what I am posting.

I tend to open the basic file up loader, but not use its browse button. I then open up my file manager, go to the files I want and highlight all of them. I then drag that over to the basic up loader and it uploads all 10 in one go. I do not seem to be able to drag and drop with the new up loader, so it is actually slightly slower for me than the basic one.

Having said that, keep up the good work guys. It is always good to see sites investing time and effort on improvements.

No issues here.

Faster upload for some reason, and easier to select multiple files.

The 10 limit is still good, it would ruin the concept if that were changed.

that seems to be my only problem to the drilling

I'm guessing it's an Adobe Flash issue that we may not have control over, but I'll look into this.

Thanks for the feedback,

I had a strange issue when trying both upload managers just now while posting pics in the following link

https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/show...&postcount=662

1: When the pics were downloaded they were all in uppercase. The advanced file manager was not able to recognise .JPG extensions. With the browse button open if I renamed the file to .jpg I could see the browsed folder populating with the file the second I renamed it.

2: With the extension now renamed to .jpg I uploaded but got an error message. This seems to be a result of the original file names not being in English. I renamed the files to 1, 2, 3, etc and they uploaded without issue.

For reference one of the original file names was: ИГОРЬ+ГРЕЙС+2012+БАЛАКЛАВА+ТАРХАНКУТ+(82) (copy).JPG

The files opened without issue on my system. For reference, I am using Linux but I do not think that was the issue as I have always been using it since I joined the site and have not had any issues before now.

It is worth noting that of the 5 or so files I uploaded, only two were recognised using the basic manager. All were recognised after a full renaming. The basic manager did not distinguish between .JPG and .jpg

good but...
 

it is nice to upload multiple images from the computer but the old version allowed upload from url....the new one doesnt?
being able to paste a list of 10 urls at once would be a nice feature..

I just used the advanced version for the first time. I selected 8 files from my browser window to upload using the 'ctrl' key and 'click' method. I like the ability to select multiple files BUT it posted the last selected file first and the remaining files in order. Is this normal? Is it something I can control, possibly re-organize after the post in 'edit'?

There is still a limit of 10 attachments per post.

Great addition. May I ask though why the limit is only 10?

Seems very low for a board of this size.

I ask because I recently added 50 photos to a thread and apart from it not only of course taking 5 posts to get them all on I also pretty much took other the original posters thread in doing so and because 5 posts meant it would now spill over to page two people may lose out on seeing great content on the previous posts because of it.

i think keeping posts limited to 10 makes pages manageable, you expect to turn the page at a certan point and to be honest we are all used to formatting our posts for 10 (selecting images, etc.).

having said that, the idea of having 10 be the limit per filetype is tempting, for example one could have 10 images plus a video, zip or some combination of that nature.

my wish is for small gifs and images (i forget the width/height limit) to not upload in a separate box, and for pngs to be accepted, that would be a great fix, otherwise i have no complaints.