Chief Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Anybody know how to stop this. I get this every time I try to upload a picture. And by stop it I don't mean using a third party website. Third party site is a huge pain in the ass. It has to be something with this website because I don't get it anywhere else. It's F@%king annoying. I'd like to upload pics but don't because of this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) This was a test to prove to myself that the same workaround works. I don't know what it is about the raw picture from the iPhone camera but I get the same -200 screen. All I do is edit the picture in the slightest and it works. For this picture I did a very slight--pretty much imperceptible--crop. Edited June 7, 2021 by AntonioGG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I've checked both the modified and the raw file stats. Both are HEIC and the same size. I'm not sure what changes but that's what I've been doing forever to post pics here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I have had good luck copying the pic, and pasting it into the reply. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRider3141 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, AntonioGG said: All I do is edit the picture in the slightest and it works. For this picture I did a very slight--pretty much imperceptible--crop. This is the work around that I use. Recently, I have not had to do anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Are you using a browser on your phone to access the forum? Try using the Tapatalk app. If you upload the image from your phone through the app, it works. I get the -200 error when I try to upload from my photo album on the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 -200 may be a file size issue. I also upload from Chrome whether the telephony or PC version--I just don't enjoy Tapatalk. I've found that in either case, if I upload any image it works 0% of the time. But if I uploaId a cropped screenshot of the image, instead of the image, then it works 100% of the time. And so far as I can tell, the image quality is fine for our use. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 My theory is that it has to do with the "live photo" or whatever its called. One small edit makes it a static image. Using the app or an external file host or even dragging to the desktop changes the file type. I'd be interested if anyone has this problem with a non-Apple device. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 At various times I'm using Chrome in a Windows, Android and unfortunately occasionally an Iphone environment (stupid work phone). Same issues on all platforms. I occasionally take motion style photos, but generally they're static images. I went to looked at some of them, and the original images are in the 10+MP range. The screenshot versions are in the sub 1MP range. That's why I think it's a size thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Barry said: At various times I'm using Chrome in a Windows, Android and unfortunately occasionally an Iphone environment (stupid work phone). Same issues on all platforms. I occasionally take motion style photos, but generally they're static images. I went to looked at some of them, and the original images are in the 10+MP range. The screenshot versions are in the sub 1MP range. That's why I think it's a size thing. The picture I posted above is 12.1MP and the raw picture is 12.1MP. I am sure it's not a size issue. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Here a live photo that I converted to a gif. Not really testing anything. It just seems to convey the same feelings as this problem. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olddbrider Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I've had the same problem for a long time when trying to post from my Android. Actually, I don't typically access the forum on my phone, so when I have tried to upload pics it's from my PC, not my phone. However I still get the -200 error almost all the time. I'll try the tip mentioned above and see if it works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATXZJ Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 It seems to be a bit of a crapshoot. Some of my pics taken from the same phone, the same day will upload. Others get the -200 no matter what workaround I use. *shrugs* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFisher Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I just saw it for the first time today doing what I basically always do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I've never seen this error, not sure why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 hour ago, TheX said: I've never seen this error, not sure why. I've done the copy/paste thing and that always works for me too. So if that's what you always do, then I suppose that always works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 I use screen captor so ctrl-printscreen lets me copy any area. It's just a habit now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) I did an airdrop to my macbook of both the raw and the modified pictures to figure out what's going on. Unmodified the file extension is HEIC while modified the file extension is heic. I think that's got to be the issue. Let's see what happens.... It doesn't recognize it as a picture. IMG_1226.HEIC Same pic just changing the extension: (this was all from laptop so it behaves completely different) IMG_1226.heic Edited June 9, 2021 by AntonioGG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Same pic just lower case extension from the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 I think the forum software just needs to be setup to recognize lower case and uppercase HEIC extensions as pictures because it seems it is doing its own compression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Interesting. When I set the phone photo format to most compatible (JPG H.264) even that doesn't work. I change the picture to .jpg instead of .JPG and that still doesn't work. I give up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.