Update: It doesn't happen if I "Like" my own posts, only when "Liking" someone else's

I think you're using the plugin on a version of Elgg which isn't supported by the plugin.

File tools isn't compatible with Elgg 3.x, because we haven't had a need for it to be updated.

If you wish for it to be updated contact us at info@coldtrick.com and we can discuss what would be involved to update the plugin (time / costs).

As I said, I am afraid to deactivate aalborg_theme since it gave me a fatal error that I did not know how to recover from and had to reinstall Elgg. This time I would lose some work I have done in it.

If you can wait, I can give it a quick look tomorrow under 2.3.16, which is the one I should be using.

Thanks a million!! That worked and I am in business with both Tutor LMS and Lessons. 

Just a question though. I notice that for a course or lesson you can add just one file. In the use case we have a lesson may have multiple documents - document, video, image, even sound file. In effect the ability to load a folder vs a file. The File Tools plugin provides some of that capability on the Files tab. However, it expects end users (teachers in my case) to zip the files up, something they are not tech savvy to do, and it does not support some formats, such as Google docs that teachers often use. Ideally, it would associate a folder structure for a lesson with other folders or files in it. 

I am asking for a lot :-(

I notice that for a course or lesson you can add just one file. In the use case we have a lesson may have multiple documents -

It should be easy to allow multiple uploads, it will require to change the upload button to "multiple" and loop through the files in the action.

Ideally, it would associate a folder structure for a lesson with other folders or files in it. 

Alternatively, instead of uploading the files via lessons' plugin, you could embed them with the files plugin. If you need folder structure, I strongly suggest you to try this plugin:

https://github.com/ColdTrick/file_tools

Hello iionly,

Thanks for your prompt response. I've been on this all afternoon and still no joy. Ffmpeg just appears to stop after the creation of the png thumbnail. I'm also using Tidypics and that is working fine. Cron is enabled and running, the files exist, I can video convert via the command line using the domain user and the data directory group includes www-data.

I'll keep at it and let you know when I've succeeded. It's probably something embarrassingly simple :) 

Thanks again.

It's working now. My fault :(

I finally tracked it down to an orphan record in the queue.db (I don't know how it got there). This appeared to cause a problem in: /izap_videos/views/default/izap_videos/admin/getQueue.php Line 33 with a call to PHP filesize(). As the orphan record was first in the queue I believe it prevented the queue from running the conversion on the other videos. What led me to this was attempting to delete the first record in the queue threw a critical error.

Anyway, if anyone else should have problems converting videos and a "Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for..." is logged in the error.log and deleting a video in the queue causes a critical error it could be the result of an orphan record in the queue.db. 

Thanks for sharing.

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