Title: Persistent Image upload error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Persistent Image upload error

 *  [nickangtc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickangtc/)
 * (@nickangtc)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-image-upload-error/)
 * Hi, I’m facing a problem uploading photos that has persisted for a few weeks.
 * The error message I get is:
    An error occurred in the upload. Please try again
   later.
 * It occurs intermittently to seemingly random photos (with 80% failure rate, ending
   up with this same error message).
 * I’ve searched for solutions and some suggested changing file permissions in the`
   wp-content` folder using an FTP client to 744 or 755. I’m trying this method 
   but am facing issues with my FTP client login. Will update on this solution later.
 * Are there other possible reasons for this error?

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 *  Thread Starter [nickangtc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickangtc/)
 * (@nickangtc)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-image-upload-error/#post-5315405)
 * Hi, an update:
 * I noticed some files had dimensions of 5184 x 3456 and those cannot be uploaded.
   I tried resizing the image (not file) size and they seem to get uploaded fine.
 * I’m now going to resize all my product images and hope it’s a permanent solution.
 *  [php-developer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/php-developer-1/)
 * (@php-developer-1)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-image-upload-error/#post-5315406)
 * You need to set the value of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in your php.
   ini
    php_value upload_max_filesize 40M php_value post_max_size 42M

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-image-upload-error/#post-5315406)
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