Brent, are you able to upload a photo using the file plugin and get it to show up?

Good question - nothing shows up when uploading a file with the photo plugin either.  Interestingly, when I upload a photo through the file plugin everything appears to work okay.  When I try to download that same file, it appears it is not there - the link returns a file with 0 bytes.  Same with non-image files - 0 bytes.  Could it be a file permissions problem?  Sorry to be such a newb, but I don't know where to look.

Yes, I think you have a permissions problem with your data directory. I'll try to put some extra code in the next release that tries to catch this error rather than fail silently.

Thanks - I think that's it, but I can't seem to fix it.  I modified my data directory to 777.  When uploading a photo the newly created "/a" directory has permissions of 700 and I can't do a CHMOD through my FTP (just thought I would check to see if that corrected anything).  When trying to upload, the file seems to go through okay, but now I get a blank for the image (no question mark placeholder).  I realize these problems aren't particular to Tidypics and sure appreciate your help!

The user that Apache is running under would have read,write,execute permissions to the "/a" directory so I think it should work. It does mean that you cannot even check whether the file is there or not. I guess your hosting service really has things locked down.

Are profile icons working?

@Brent

DataDir == 777 is OK

All SubDirs under that == 700 is OK
because the owner usually "apache or your own ID will be executing the code and has read / write/delete to all SubDirs, nobody else can screw with the SubDirs.

0 bytes !! aha !!!
you **definitely have *file *upload *size problem ;-(
go read the php.ini / htaccess working solutions on other TidyPics beta vers posts.

The profile icon and group icon images work okay - they upload, resize and display without problems.  I can contact the host, but I'm not sure what I need to ask...it's kind of weird, I've never had these problems before.

usted muy loco dumkopf LOLZ ;-)

e.g.  php.ini code =
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
file_uploads = On
max_execution_time = 300   
upload_max_filesize = 20M
max_input_time = 600
memory_limit = 128M     
post_max_size = 8M

... enjoy ;-)

Too early to contact your host.

If profile icons work, it cannot be a permissions issue.

Did you say that you *cannot* upload an image using the file plugin? I wasn't sure from what you said. Try some very small images and see if they work.

Hi - Sorry for the delay in response, but I have been out of town.

I tried the php.ini setting changes suggested by Dhrup (thanks!) - this corrected the file upload problem through the file plugin.  I can now upload files fine using through the file plugin and everything works as expected.

I now have a new set of issues with both Tidypics and the Photo plugins - I'm assuming it has something to do with GD.  When I upload an image, it goes through the process fine accept no thumbnail shows up - just the text link "Thumbnail".  When I click on the link within the album, the detail page comes up with a small blank box where the image should be.  However when I click on the blank box, the full-size image now appears.  So, I assume it is something having to do with the resizing process, but I am not sure how to troubleshoot.  The Tidypics server anlysis shows GD as enabled.

Thanks for any help!

Brent