[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Cannot find imagerotator.swf

  • Following the instructions, I downloaded the imagerotator.swf file and uploaded to the indicated directory, wp-content/upload. NGG could not find it. I then created a folder with the name imagerotator and placed it there, no difference. I entered the path into the field and saved settings but NGG cannot use the SWF file. What am I doing wrong?

    Facts:
    1. I know that the imagerotator.swf and the other files that came with it are in the above mentioned directory.
    2. There is a second copy of imagerotator.swf in wp-content/upload directory.
    3. I clicked on the “Search Now” button with no success
    4. I manually entered the path as wp-content/upload and saved settings

    Obviously I have not yet tried the necessary step. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

    Cemal

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  • @acekin

    Did you get a work around for it? I’m embedding my slideshow, however, it dosn’t display the photos. I can see the “area” where the pictures should be displayed – but get nothing.

    Thread Starter ACEkin

    (@acekin)

    No, there is no fix yet. Alex indicated that he would look into the query issue. I provided the links where the slideshow is working so that there would be more clues. One piece of the puzzle is that where they are working, slideshows appear on a “page”. Mine is not working as expected where the slideshows appear in a “post”. My guess is that there is a difference in the formation of the syntax and that will be fixed. Frankly, I rarely use the slideshow presentation, but I need to know in case my students need to make it work.

    Hi everyone!

    I had the same problem with uploaded images via ftp. Some galleries could not be displayed by Imagerotator.swf but in normal browsing everything was fine.

    I figured out that some images in “Manage Gallery” displayed no name beside the thumbnail and these did not show up or broke the slideshow widget. These images had embeded jpg metadata and I think this broke the output of the gallery-plugin to imagerotator. Maybe there is an unescaped, not cleaned string or something in the processing of metadata by NextGEN, because these images were named “<KENOX S1050 / Samsung S1050>” in the alt & title field. Imagerotator eventually can not process these names and “crashed”.

    I solved the problem by removing the images from the gallery, removing the embeded metadata from the images, uploading them again and refreshing the folder via “Manage Gallery”. After this everything was fine.

    I was banging my head against the wall for ages over this one. I found other forums and tried their solutions, but nothing worked.

    bzZzZz’s solution worked for me. I did not need to upload the images again though, all I needed to do was rename them in the gallery. It must be something to do with the “<” and “>” characters that the imagerotator.swf does not like.

    Anyway, thanks for posting your solution. I can continue with my life now!!!

    Is there any workarounds to get this to work? I have this same issue.

    Oh wow! I actually found a solution to this:

    Thanks to all who helped. I’ve managed to put it right with this link: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/164003?replies=6

    (basically changing settings – miscellaneous – uncheck ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ box.

    Save. All solved. Who’d have thought it.

    Good Luck!

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