Known Issues for Blogger

Some users are reporting problems with image upload, accompanied by the error message "Internal error for posting images." We're investigating this now and will update this thread with more information when we have it.

Update, 10:50AM PST: We've released a fix and image upload should be working again without issue. Thanks for your patience.

We're investigating reports of users not being able to upload images in Compose mode of the post editor. We'll report back as soon as we have more information. Thanks for your patience.

Update, 1:30 PST: We have released a fix and photo upload should working again.

Some users have reported that images are not displaying on their blog when uploading or editing from the new post editor in IE6 or IE7. We're investigating right now and will follow-up with more info as we have it.

Update: 3:45PM There are two fairly reliable workarounds to this issue which have been reported by users:

1. Upload and/or edit photos from IE8+, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. The issue seems to only affect IE6/7
2. You Publish Postcan make already-uploaded images display by manually editing the image code from the Edit HTML tab. Just remove the height="0" and width="0" elements and the images should appear.

We're aware of the issue preventing users from adding multiple images to their blog at once after uploading; we have a fix in the works and it should be released shortly. 

Some users have reported that header images have degraded in quality after uploading. We're investigating this and will report back as soon as we have more information to share.

Thanks for your patience.

Update, 1/25: This issue has been fixed. Your previously-uploaded header images should now display clearly.

The Upload function in the new post editor is currently not working for a small subset of users. We're looking into this and will post and update as soon as we have more information to share.

In the meantime you may revert to the old post editor if you need to upload images. Thanks for your patience.

Users that have enabled the new post editor may see script errors when uploading images and videos. The errors should not prevent you from successfully uploading your images and video.

Some users are currently having trouble uploading images. We're investigating the issue right now and will report back with an update shortly.

Thanks for your patience.

The shrink-to-fit feature for headers and images only affects newly-uploaded images. To workaround this issue, simply upload your image again.

Update, 2/29: The “shrink to fit” checkbox now only appears before uploading an image.

Clicking on image uploaded through the post editor will show a file download box instead of showing the full-size image in the browser. We are currently working to fix this issue. In the meantime, a workaround is to make two changes to the first URL in the image <a> tag:

Update, 12/4: We pushed a fix for this late last night. Uploaded image click-throughs now work correctly again.

1. Replace "-R" with "-h".
2. Replace the image location folder (preceeding something like "s1600-R") with the folder in the second URL.

Old code:
<a href="http://.../uvkJJAw53aw/s1600-R/PICTURE.JPG">
<img src="http://.../sDRgJ2i-NLo/s320/PICTURE.JPG" /></a>

New Code:
<a href="http://.../sDRgJ2i-NLo/s1600-h/PICTURE.JPG">
<img src="http://.../sDRgJ2i-NLo/s320/PICTURE.JPG"/></a>

We are aware and currently working to fix the image uploading issue. This issue predominately causes the following error codes:
bX-6tnmaz
bX-ltlqzv

For updates and discussion of this issue, please visit this Hot Topic thread in the Blogger Help Group.

Users who have paid for additional storage space on Picasa Web Albums may not be able to use their additional storage space from within Blogger. As a workaround, try first logging into your Picasa Web Albums account (picasaweb.google.com) and logging out; your additional storage space should then be accessible from within Blogger.

Animated image files will not stay animated if the file is hosted by Blogger. This happens because Picasa doesn't support animated images and the Blogger-hosted photos are stored in Picasa Web Albums.

Images uploaded to Blogger via Picasa’s BlogThis! feature are not appearing if the alignment is set to “left” or “right.” The current workaround is to upload images with an alignment of “none.”

Update, 2/8/08: This has been fixed for a while, now. Closing.

If you delete all images uploaded to your blog from your Blogger Picasa Web album and then delete that album, you will be unable to upload new images to your blog.

In Internet Explorer 6.0 and in Compose mode, if you upload an image and then drag it to another location in your post, you might be unable to click through to the full size version of the image once the post is published. To avoid this problem, you can either use a different web browser or switch to Edit HTML mode to move the image code manually.

Some rectangular images uploaded via the Picture widget in Layouts are being displayed as square, and are thus distorted.

Autosave and image upload do not work with the new Safari 3 beta. We're investigating.