Attachments not displaying when attached from "Quick Reply"

[rharbison]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Try upgrading to 4.2.2

VB 4.2.2 is what _caused_ the problem in my gardening forum! I was using the modified uploader and it worked fine. Did the upgrade, and it broke.

Now here's the odd thing... I run multiple forums (I own 8 licenses). They're all running VB 4.2.2 PL1. They're all, as far as I can tell, identical. They're all on the same server.

Two of them exhibit this issue. The others do not. It's reproducible, but not 100% consistent. Every once in a while it will work. Usually it does not.

Why it works in one and not another, all running on the same server and with the same version of VB is a total mystery.

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Originally Posted by tpearl5

I'm curious if anyone has seen a pattern by browser? It seems like sometimes the file just never makes it there. It could very well be a bug in the flash uploader.

I don't think it's the flash uploader. In fact, I'm 99.9% sure it's not. The reason I say that is that I did some extensive testing, including "falling back" to the 0 byte swf file which makes it use the old and single file uploader. It exhibits the same problem.

Another reason. The file DOES upload. When you go to the edit the message, it's there. It shows up as a thumbnail and you can move it around etc. For a short time after you upload it, the "attachment xxxx" link actually works. Then, some time later, you get a file not found.

It's as if the file is uploading and being stored in some temp area, but not being written correctly. But the fact it works the same with both the uploader.swf and the basic uploader seem to indicate it's not the uploader.

I keep thinking, in the back of mind, that this problem showed up sometime in the past too. Can't recall if it was an issue with the graphics program, GD or Mogrify or what, but it seems vaguely familiar.