Title: Error msg when Uploading PDFs
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error msg when Uploading PDFs

 *  [michaelyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelyn/)
 * (@michaelyn)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-msg-when-uploading-pdfs/)
 * Hi- I’m getting this message when attempting to upload PDFs. Not sure how to 
   adjust the php.ini. Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks!
 * Error USED Technol…ril 2013.pdf
    File is empty. Please upload something more 
   substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your
   php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize
   in php.ini.

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 *  Theme Author [TT Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomastoman/)
 * (@tomastoman)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-msg-when-uploading-pdfs/#post-5118250)
 * Dear Michaelyn,
 * this error is caused by a low memory limit set on your web server. To fix it,
   please contact your web host provider with the requirement to increase the memory
   limit for uploading files (upload_max_filesize).
    Also verify that there are 
   no special symbols in the name of your PDF file as this also could cause some
   problems.
 * Best regards
    Tomas Toman

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