Hi Mandy and welcome !

I've just uploaded a photo to the 'People' category and the upload failed initially with the character error you described.

The photo filename must not contain any characters other than letters. I removed the symbol '&' from mine and it worked fine.

Hope this helps.

Its ok , she had brackets in the title , removed and photo uploaded no probs.

Andy

I too am having difficulty uploading photos (not in the forum i managed that ok i think) When i click on upload it takes me out of the website altogether do you think thats a security problem or am i just not doing it right

I too am having difficulty uploading photos (not in the forum i managed that ok i think) When i click on upload it takes me out of the website altogether do you think thats a security problem or am i just not doing it right

Hi Hilary, where outside the website does it take you? I've just, literally, tried an upload of a photo of Mimizan Beach and it worked fine. There is a screen that explains what the upload process is doing but that only lasts for a second or two before returning to the galleries.

The original photo does need to be under 2mb in size, well under is preffered but the software should resize it automatically from there.

Its ok neil it was my fault. Two possibilities really, i didnt fill in the catergories box at the right time and also i changed file name because it wasnt accepting it as it was. Anyway its there for all to see now and hope someone out there thinks it was worth it ha ha