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+Troubleshooting
+=================
+If you are experiencing errors, please check your server error log. Tidypics
+writes warnings for most upload related problems. You will see something
+along these lines: "Tidypics warning: user exceeded post limit on image upload"
+
+
+GD PHP Image Library
+=====================
+Elgg requires GD for image resizing of profile avatars. Tidypics uses GD by
+default for resizing. There are two versions GD and GD2. It generally does not matter
+which one you are using and it isn't always apparent which one you are
+running anyway. GD is a memory hog and will cause problems with large images.
+
+imagick PHP Image Library
+=============================
+A significantly better image library than GD. Not as common as GD. You may need
+to ask your system administrator to install this. The server info tab in Tidypics
+settings will tell you whether it is installed.
+
+ImageMagick command line tools
+===============================
+This requires that the PHP function exec() is available which is often disbaled
+for security reasons. You can find ImageMagick on your server by running "which convert".
+
+Memory Available to PHP
+=========================
+The amount of RAM available to a single PHP process. This can have an effect on
+how large an image you can resize (especially if you are running Tidypics with GD).
+The best place to change it is .htaccess.
+
+Memory Used to Load This Page
+==============================
+This gives you a baseline of how much memory is being used to load the Elgg
+framework and plugins. Subtract this number from the total amount of memory available
+for image processing. Remember that GD requires a lot of memory - more than just the
+size of the image.
+
+Max File Upload Size
+=======================
+The largest file that can be uploaded. You can adjust this in .htaccess.
+
+Max Post Size
+===============
+The largest amount of data that can be submitted. For Tidypics, this affects
+how many large images can be uploaded in a single upload with the basic uploader.
+If this is exceeded, nothing is uploaded and the user gets an error message.
+It can be adjusted in .htaccess.
+
+Max Input Time
+===============
+This is the amount of time PHP will wait for an upload to finish. Your users may
+experience failures if they are uploading large images on a poor connection or if
+your server does not have a lot of bandwidth.
+
+Max Execution Time
+===================
+The longest time a PHP script can run on your server. If a user uploads many
+large images, the resize code may take a long time to complete and will be
+stopped by PHP. If you are seeing problems with this, you probably have a slow server.
+
+GD imagejpeg
+===============
+This tells you whether you can resize JPEG images with GD
+
+GD imagegif
+===============
+This tells you whether you can resize GIF images with GD
+
+GD imagepng
+===============
+This tells you whether you can resize PNG images with GD