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[rsystems Friend rsystemsJoin date: July 2012Posts: 118Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 41 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#180590

I copied the perfectly working slideshow module from the Home page, gave it another name. I cloned the profile settings profile and gave it another name. I changed the path to the images, it should work good.

In the module settings: path to images is correct and proper permissions (644 for files, 755 for folders).

Problem: everything seems to work, except the images are not loaded (see screenshot above).

What am I doing wrong?

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#466691

Hi rsystems,

I would like to take a look at your site to detect the problem and tell you what was going wrong, if possible you can pm me your url, admin account, the FTP info for further checking.

[rypetry Friend rypetryJoin date: March 2011Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#466755

Just had the same problem and figured it out… at least for me this worked:

1) Make sure that your images/stories/demo/slideshow folder is set to 777.

2) Make sure that your images/resized/images/stories/demo/slideshow folder is set to 777.

**If the slideshow is using thumbnail mode – whether it’s set to crop or resize in folder mode – it will not work if it can’t access the resize folder to create the thumbnail.

Hope this helped.

EDIT – I forgot to mention that you will need to delete all picture files in the images/resized/images/stories/demo/slideshow folder because it will pull all previously created files and associate it with the picture filename. If you don’t do this, the template will pull the demo photo orginally created. It will create new ones automatically when you refresh the browser window. But to be safe, I’d recommend downloading them to your computer and then delete them in the ftp directory just in case something doesn’t work. Always backup your work before you hit the delete key. lol.

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[rsystems Friend rsystemsJoin date: July 2012Posts: 118Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 41 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#466825

<em>@rypetry 337820 wrote:</em><blockquote>Just had the same problem and figured it out… at least for me this worked:

1) Make sure that your images/stories/demo/slideshow folder is set to 777.

2) Make sure that your images/resized/images/stories/demo/slideshow folder is set to 777.

**If the slideshow is using thumbnail mode – whether it’s set to crop or resize in folder mode – it will not work if it can’t access the resize folder to create the thumbnail.

Hope this helped.

EDIT – I forgot to mention that you will need to delete all picture files in the images/resized/images/stories/demo/slideshow folder because it will pull all previously created files and associate it with the picture filename. If you don’t do this, the template will pull the demo photo orginally created. It will create new ones automatically when you refresh the browser window. But to be safe, I’d recommend downloading them to your computer and then delete them in the ftp directory just in case something doesn’t work. Always backup your work before you hit the delete key. lol.</blockquote>

Thanks for this, this is the solution! I presume I have to change back the rights back every time I have updated the slideshow? As chmod 777 is not safe? Is there maybe a workaround for this so it’s done automatically?

[rypetry Friend rypetryJoin date: March 2011Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#466836

I would change it back. Just takes a couple of seconds if you use an simple FTP program like FileZilla. Just a couple of clicks.

Glad I could help.

Cheers.

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