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I've just hit a new little snag. I was trying to post an update to my little oilstone box project here
www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk
I'd drafted my thread, clicked on the Preview button and got an error message telling me "The submitted message is too long to be processed. Please shorten it." I split it into two parts.
Is it really too long? Copying and pasting it all into Word says it's 542 words, or 2917 characters including spaces. There were 14 pictures, mostly about 3Mb before uploading.
An oilstone box
A holiday weekend with cloudy weather and the promise of rain - so my thoughts turned to the workshop. It was time to combine two welcome gifts and play with some old tools. Over a decade ago, a neighbour kindly left a log of wood on our doorstep. I didn't know much about seasoning and...
www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk
I'd drafted my thread, clicked on the Preview button and got an error message telling me "The submitted message is too long to be processed. Please shorten it." I split it into two parts.
Is it really too long? Copying and pasting it all into Word says it's 542 words, or 2917 characters including spaces. There were 14 pictures, mostly about 3Mb before uploading.
fiveeyes
Sapling
Windows 10, and Firefox
Trevanion
Old Oak
Did you get around to looking at the issue, Alasdair?
Apologies - so busy I forgot - will try and do so this week!
the nearest understanding I can see is that sometime dragging / dropping images into the browser puts them in as 'text' not image (apparently more likely with firefox) and if this happens you hit maximum lengths on the post... If so, the solution is to remove images / create post / re-add them through the normal image process, but if still getting issues, select image from the file dialogue box, not through dragging and dropping...
Trevanion
Old Oak
I think the issue with the post is the hyperlinks as there’s no photos on that particular post?
Ahhh - just realised - you are presumably referring to this one?
again - not sure how, but it must have seen the character count as above 10,000 and the only way it will do that is through hidden characters - URLs can do it, and images if not loaded correctly can also cause issues...
best option is to toggle the code button --> [] <-- and see what is taking up the space
Trevanion
Old Oak
Ahhh - just realised - you are presumably referring to this one?
again - not sure how, but it must have seen the character count as above 10,000 and the only way it will do that is through hidden characters - URLs can do it, and images if not loaded correctly can also cause issues...
best option is to toggle the code button --> [] <-- and see what is taking up the space
It's in this thread, which before the change of software I would edit the post and hyperlink titles to the relevant posts in the thread so it would be an easy reference. When I check the code and count all the characters there are over 10,900, which is presumably mostly hyperlinks. I suppose I could just remove all the hyperlinks (they all would need updating anyway as all the links don't work anymore after the update) but it's a bit of a shame.
https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/vintage-wood-machining-books.4812/
spb
Nordic Pine
That sounds like the 10,000 character limit is something that phpBB didn't enforce but the new software does, so that the post got migrated across without a problem but then can't be edited without reducing it to fit under the new limit.
Apparently that limit is configurable in the admin panel - while there aren't many posts that would need to be longer than 10,000 characters, I think that thread is a good example of where it would be beneficial.
Apparently that limit is configurable in the admin panel - while there aren't many posts that would need to be longer than 10,000 characters, I think that thread is a good example of where it would be beneficial.
fair point - limit now 20000 (don't use it all at once
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Trevanion
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Pete Maddex
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I seem to have no alerts, they have all vanished it says "You do not have any recent alerts"
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Do you get an alert for this reply Pete?
Pete Maddex
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I did see a alert but I refreshed the page before I clicked on and didn't stay on so I clicked the alerts bell and it showed no alerts, its the same on my phone.
It seems like they have been deleted.
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Im not sure but once youve seen an alert. I dont think it will be reshown again?
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The red bell isn’t lit on mine after I have looked at the alert, but I can still see the last 9. If that helps, Ian