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Any idea what would cause all the images in the file manager, when syncing, to show up as an error like the following:

myimage1.jpg: invalid_filename
myimage2.png: invalid_filename
myimage3.jpg: invalid_filename

Hello Natetronn,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

What version of ExpressionEngine are you currently running?

Are you using any Add-Ons that deal with files or images?

Can you check the file perms on those files?

What is the end result, do the files sync or just error out?

Please let me know.

Thank you,

I’m having this same issue after upgrading to 2.5. All file permissions are correct. Whenever I try to sync a file directory in the control panel I get the invalid_filename error for all files in the directory.

Thanks for the reply Shane!

I know my original support request was lacking info required for you to answer though, I thought I would ask “quick like” if anyone else ran into the issue hoping I would get lucky.

Anyhow, I need to set this up locally so I can start the process of elimination & I had to put this on the back burner and I won’t get to it for quite a few hours. I know Casey is following so, I will post again ASAP on this.

I resolved my issue. In my case I was using the config file options for setting file upload preferences and I did not have a trailing slash on the server path. I had it like this:

1 => array(
          'server_path' => $base_path . '/uploads/pages',
          'url'         => $base_url  . '/uploads/pages/'
      ),

instead of this:

1 => array(
          'server_path' => $base_path . '/uploads/pages/',
          'url'         => $base_url  . '/uploads/pages/'
      ),

Adding that trailing slash allowed my files to sync and thumbnails to be generated.

Hello Casey,

Thank you for letting us know! Nice catch!

Hey Natetronn - let me know how things are going when you get a chance!

Cheers,

Sorry about the late response on this and @Casey I apologize for not recommending that as Adrienne had mentioned it in help chat but, I had forgotten to mention it here.

Apparently I had two issues, one was the forward slash like Casey pointed out and the other issue is a back slash issue on a Windows local dev server.

I’ve “solved” the back slash issue with the following though, I don’t know if this is the best way to do this or not. It seems to work yet, I’m hoping for some guidance if possible?

$slash_type = (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') ? '\\' : '/'; 
 $config['upload_preferences'] = array(
  3 => array(
    'name'        => 'Thumbnails',
    'server_path' => $images_path . $slash_type. 'uploads' . $slash_type . 'thumbnails/',
    'url'         => $images_url  . '/uploads/thumbnails/'
  )
 );

Thanks

Hey Natetronn,

I have seen this issue every now and then and when it’s resolved, I have yet to see how it was done.

Your solution looks nice, I would stick with it.

Cheers,