Limit Photos, not Uploads!

Alot of people are running into this problem and me included.  If you goto set your photos for a membership level to lets say 5..  You think you are allowing members to have 5 photos, but the way the system works is  5 Uploads, not necessarily 5 photos.  This means if users upload 5 photos and delete some they cannot upload anymore because they used up their 5 uploads.  I feel this is very dumb, as people like to keep updated pics of themselves.  Soo anyway i'm trying to come up with a work around for people to use if they want... I see in the database where it keeps track of the allowed actions left for each user..  So i'm trying to find the file that actually deletes the photo from the database and I would include 1 more sql query that will update the allowed actions.  So when a user deletes a file it will credit them 1 more upload for each photo deleted.  If someone can tell me this file that would be great!  Thanks.

Hi,

are you sure it's restricted to 3 uploads? We had a similar issue, user had to wait 24 to 48 hours after deleting a photo within their max limit but then they could load the same number of deleted photos, and no other restriction, they coud do this over and over again...

I meant 5 uploads in my case... it's whatever you set it for... if you set it for 10 then it'd limit to 10 uploads.  Some users have found a work around or cheat... they instead upload avatars and have it goto their photos as well... so to stop that you have to limit avatars as well.  And yes a user deleted his photos the other day and tried today to upload another one and it says denied... soo I gotta find the file that actually deletes the photos from the database...

Really sure?

We have limit set for basic membership, and it does only restrict photos, not uploads. The only problem we had was the time lag for replacing the deleted  photos...

So in your site, with limit 5, is it possible to load let's say 20 photos if I do it in 1 upload? If so, something is missing or maybe not correctly specified...

Hi

The problem is because the limit is set to 5 by default on this file  try this please

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/?action=goto&search=1#topic/how-can-we-change-default-Flash-uploader-upload-limits-from-5-to-whate.htm

Hmmm actually i never tested uploading multiple photos at one time... i will certainly test that.   I just know currently if a user hits their limit, and deletes some of their photos they are still not allowed to upload anymore.

I'm not trying to change the amount of uploads at a time.. although if I set the max to 5 photos per user profile and they are getting around that by uploading multiple pics at once then i will limit it to 1 file at a time.. but i have to test that first...  My problem is as i said before... if we limit standard members to just 5 photos.. when they upload 5 and delete lets say 2 photos.. they aren't allowed to upload anymore because it's set up for 5 uploads, not 5 photos..

I thing maybe when they upload 5 they try to upload 2 more and that's why they can't not upload more because they still on the same uploading page but if they go to any page and go back to the upload page they can upload 5 more

but remember members like to upload more than 5 so I set this for my site to 50 on the file this is for videos, sounds and photos than you don't need to add the limit on membership is not going to work because you set the upload limit on the main file

i hope you get my point

So your saying in the membership limitations it's only limiting how much users can upload at a time?  That's not my concern...  When you goto membership levels and can restrict each action for a set amount of time.. I currently have set that users can only have 5 photos on their profile at any given time unless they upgrade.  That works fine, when users upload their 5 photos (wether they do it 1 at a time or 5 at a time)... when they try to upload their 6th it gives them "access denied".  Soo lets say a week for now they would like to Replace on of their 5 photos on their profile... they go and delete 1 of their photos, and try to upload the new photo.. it won't let them because it still thinks there are 5 photos on their profile when there is actually only 4 now.

To be honest with you I don't know about this I never have this problem with my members or me uploading photos

if I go 5 photos on my folder and delete one or two and upload one more or two more still letting me upload when you set the limit to 5 when they upload photos using the uploader : Regulas, Flash the limit is going to be 5 because is set to 5 and no mtter wat you have on your folder you can still upload 5 by 5

If you goto "membership levels" in your admin panel.. then click on standard users... you can put limits on just about every aspect for each membership.  If you goto "add photos" and set the limit to 5 (which is my case).  I assumed this means you can only have 5 photos per standard user.  Just like you can set up each user can only have 5 avatars, or can only create 5 groups, etc...  I want my standard users to only have 5 photos in their accounts at a time.. no more.  If they want more than 5 they have to upgrade to a higher membership where there is no limit.

i think this is a good idea, and on top of that, needs to have a way of setting default values for size. the reason we need to set a file size limit on images is that these guys are taking these photos with high resolution digital cameras, and uploading directly from their card, which at times has some extraordinary high resolutions that will not ever be used on the internet for a standard viewing of a website.

this causes a problem with space on a site that allows uploads by not being able to limit the file size of the photos that are uploaded.

Agreed...currently with more than 12.000 photos, it is becoming a nighmare to run...

has there been a solution for the file-size; or a workaround? normally my hosting account lets me have limitless space, just a matter of time to find out how limitless it really is then? :)

It is not just a matter of space, we have plenty of that too...it is an equation, like a progression, when phtos, users, online users, friendship relations, chats...all add up, multiply and create an array of problems...

I am curious if there is a solution, I think I have the same "problem" as kappity. Would be nice to have a feedback.

ok i know that many have asked this, and it is one of those topics that seems to get the highest level of IGNORE.

the image gig is a problem, there are no file-size settings to resize these images or force a certain file-size to be uploaded. with todays digital cameras, images are taken in very high resolution and these image sizes are not web-ready so you end up with an image 1820 x 1380 or something. so just say this file is 12mb, but if it were resized to something web compatible, you would end up with a file of about 4mb. so we have no admin control parameters that allow for setting max image upload size, such as that on the 'AVATAR' where it forces a crop, the images being uploaded should also force a crop, or limit the filesize that is being uploaded if the crop is not what they wish to display.

ok so in looking at this, i went to the membership levels on admin --> membership levels --> standard

if 'add photo' is an option that is enabled, then you should be able to click on the link 'photos add' and see a screen such as the following:

Igor, Sasha, AlexT, or any other who knows what these settings are supposed to do, can you chime in here and give some assistance. please do not ask to submit a ticket. if there were documentation on this then we wouldnt be asking these questions.

Define each of these functions please, so that we have an understanding of what we can and cant manage from the admin panel.

Number of allowed actions = the amount of photo uploads one can perform before they are no longer allowed to upload anymore photos.

Number of actions is reset every = the upload limit you set above is reset every X amount of days/minutes/hours (upload flood control i suppose)

Action is available since = todays date (good for setting at high server load times) EX. can only upload 5 photos between 5pm to 7pm ...

Action is available to = any date into the future.

now you can use one or all of these actions at the same time.  you pick....

Just my understanding of it all