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We are trying to use the file manager to manage the process of uploading PDF’s onto a website.

We are using matrix (pixel and tonic) and one of the cells is file upload.

It works fine for images; but when we try and upload .pdf files using the file upload - an error message saying “the file could not be written to disk” pops up.

We can see that there is a bug report here:
https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/15176/

Can someone confirm if this bug is the cause of our woes - or if there is anything else we can do to help.

We have checked that the permissions for the folder are set to 777 (and we can upload images into the folder). And we have tried a variety of PDF’s ranging in size.

Many thanks
James

james,

Try setting Apply XSS Filtering to uploaded files? to no in your Security and Session Preferences

That should solve that particular issue. Had it myself a few moments ago.

Thanks for the assist. Does that help?

I had a similar problem uploading PDF’s with EE2.1.4beta (uploading a file from the File Manager popup, no Matrix involved). Disabling XSS filtering did the trick.

Thanks. Does that work for you as well, James?

I just bumped in to this issue. I was about to give up before finding this thread. Like many others here, disabling XSS was the fix.

Edit: Wanted to add it was only PDF files causing the issue. LAMP setup on Firehost.

Thanks TrevC,

You also now have the option in latest version of EE to add hidden config variables to exclude certain members or groups from XSS clean

I am going to close this thread out as its pretty old. Feel everyone to to start a new thread if you have any more questions.