Error: Destination directory can't be made writeable. Can't carry on a process

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Error: Destination directory can't be made writeable. Can't carry on a process

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Started 10 months ago by sue
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sue
Member

Hi I'm having trouble uploading the files to the slide show. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong! The link to the uploader is
http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/uploader/
Thank you!
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

Have you set your images and imagethumbs folder chmod to 777?

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Um, I don't know what that means, 'chmod to 777'? but don't think I have, certainly not deliberately, I've only changed the details in the config.php file.

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

Your folder that you are trying to upload to on your server needs to be able to be writable. (that's what setting them to 777) What FTP client are you using?

In you FTP client find the folder you are trying to upload photos to, and right click on it. There should be an option for Get info or Set Permissions. Select that and you should be able to set the permissions to 777

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Hi, I've done this now, but I'm still getting the same result. Does it take time for the server to apply the new property to the folders. or should it happen straight away?
Thank you,
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive
No, it should be set right away.

what path are you using for your destination path?

try this
```
../images
../imagethumbs
```
If you are using the default images folder and imagethumb folder http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/images/ and http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/imagethumbs/
Posted 10 months ago #
phishbohn
Member

I am apparently having the same problem. I have an e-mail going back to my host. They've already confirmed that they've changed permissions to both the images and imagethumbs.

I am getting the destination error and 6 undefined index crop errors. and I'm sure my server is running GD Libraries. But I have a second e-mail out to them to make sure.

I've changed the config file with absolute and relative paths to the folder, didn't try the server path yet.

And what am I suppose to do with the with entries for directory paths on the uploader page?

Posted 10 months ago #
phishbohn
Member

Love the way it works in the demo... nice work.

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

phishbohn,

try:

../images

and

../imagethumbs

Posted 10 months ago #
phishbohn
Member

got it... apparently there is no GD library so no thumbs...any work around? uploading by hand?

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Fantastic, it now works, but for some reason the first two files I uploaded generated perfect thumbnails, but the second set have turned into feint short lines with no image, but the large version is displaying properly.
Thank you for all your help so far.
Sue
www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/index.php

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

No worries, I think I'd accidentally entered the thumbnail folder as imagesthumbs, so a new folder had been created. It's working brilliantly now. Thank you, it looks great, simple and smooth.
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Just one other question. I'd like the background of the slide viewer to be white, could you tell me how to do this? Thank you. Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

Which version of the gallery did you get? Simple or Full? If you got the full, simply change the reference to the style sheet on the index.php page to be:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/e2photo_lightgray.css" />

or

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/e2photo.css" />

Those two version are with white backgrounds.

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

phishbohn: If you don't have GD library, you'll have to upload your photos yourself through FTP sorry. I'd recommend the big images to be no more the 600x600 max width and/or height. The thumbnails should be 100x100 cropped square.

Posted 10 months ago #
phishbohn
Member

I don't mind, actually the large images upload fine, it's the thumbs that won't go because of resizing.

Do you have any specs on that, specific size and file naming convention that is special. "th_imagename.jpg"?

Posted 10 months ago #
phishbohn
Member

Well... 100x100 on the thumbs but do they have to be named something specific

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

They need to be named the same as the big file, but just put in the imagethumbs folder.

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Thank you for the info about changing the colour of the background. It's worked a treat.

I've been working on the site, and notice that the larger images are automatically resized to larger than I would like them to be resulting in reduction of quality, the only way I can see to avoid this at the moment is to upload them straight to the images folder at the size I want them, but is there a way to change the default image size in the code to a different size? The images will be a maximum of 400 pixels in width or depth.

The other problem I've encountered is that although the thumbs load up fine, the larger image only shows once I've clicked on a thumbnail when the page first loads, until then it only shows the loading symbol. This starts to happen as soon as I add the navigation buttons to the page, prior to adding the navigation bar it worked well, so I'm wondering if there is some kind of conflict?

Thank you for you help again.
Kind regards,
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Re: My last post.
If you need to look at the index.php gallery page re my query above the address has changed, it is now http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/gallery/index.php
Thank you kindly,
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive
If you wold like to modify that size of the images when uploaded, open up the index.php file inside uploader and locate the following lines of code:
```
$handle->image_resize          = true;
$handle->image_ratio           = true;
$handle->image_y               = 600;
$handle->image_x               = 600;
$handle->jpeg_quality		   = 95;
```
Change the $handle->image_y and $handle->image_x to the max height and width you'd like your images to be.

I've also updated the download to fix the first large image from not loading. Download the latest and update the e2photo.js and e2photo2.js files in the js folder and it should fix the problem.
Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Thank you so much for this, the first image is loading up now, which is great, but I'm getting a dialogue box saying "The page at http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk says loaded" each time the first page of one of the galleries loads.

For the image size, I've changed the code in the index.php file in the uploader but the images still seem to be displaying at the larger 600pixels default size. Do I need to alter the code anywhere else? I've emptied the cache, as I wondered if the new file wasn't applying to the page, but it still seems to be doing it. http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/gallery/index.php

I really appreciate your technical help with this piece of software, and would like to make a contribution when I've finished the site to show my gratitude. Can I do this through the website?
All the best,
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

You'll need to re-upload your images, the images are resized once on upload, through the uploader script. You'll need to remove the first images uploaded, otherwise you'll have duplicated images in your images and imagethumbs folders.

Sorry about the alert box opening, I forgot to comment out the alert call in the e2photo2.js file in the js folder. Open the js e2photo.js file and erase the line that says alert('loaded');.

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

Thank you, that's brilliant. Most excellent support you offer. I am very impressed.
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
sue
Member

I think we're almost there! but now the arrows on the thumbnail bar seem to have disappeared on all the galleries.
http://www.cinnamoncreative.co.uk/griz/gallery/index.php
Thank you,
Sue

Posted 10 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

I Took a look at your pages, and I can't see what went wrong. Did you tweak the templates or pages at all? Did you make sure to include everything when you transfered a gallery to each page you made?

Either some variable is missing or some images are missing.

Posted 9 months ago #
e2
e2interactive

Okay, sorry about that, but I have fixed this issue. You'll need to download the latest and replace the js/e2photo2.js file or download this file only:

Download e2photo2.js update

I have now fixed it and your thumbnails scrolling will work with this update.

Posted 9 months ago #
sue
Member

Brilliant, it's working perfectly now! Thank you so much.
All the best,
Sue

Posted 9 months ago #

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