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Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

nicboyde — Feb 09, 2013, 03:20 AM

This one's an old chestnut. Lots of people have had problems seeing the thumbnail images in FCK editor, and over the years, so have I, and I've never found a solution, or set of solutions that make sense of the whole.

The site in question today is an Evo 1.0.5 I use Firefox, latest version.

Today's example was weird. I usually load images up using ftp, and put them in sub-folders eg: /assets/images/subfolder. I then enter the html to refer to the images by hand, or use FCK Editor, whichever seems quickest at the time. Today I uploaded another batch, same routine as usual, and Filezilla showed the new files in the right place (in a sub-folder called .../advertisements). But no matter what I did, FCK Editor wouldn't (create and) show the thumbnails, nor for that matter did manual entry of the html (
I checked for filenames with umlauts and the like - nope - no non-standard ASCII characters used. CHecked permissions - same as all the other subdirectories, all of which were working fine. Just this one batch.

I shortened the sub-directory name to "adimages" - perhaps some bizarre filename-length-limiting hangover from the 70s on my host. Nope. Then I prefaced the subdirectory name with the numerals 14 - /assets/images/14adimages/.

It worked! All the thumbnails were instantly created, and FCK Editor sprang to life. I changed the subfolder back to /assets/images/adimages/. Broken again. Added-back the numbers. Visible again.

It was Adblock plus! Perhaps because the directory name started with "ad" (bet then so do two others in the same parent directory and they are perfectly fine). Anyway, I've given up trying to explore further, but Adblock Plus, with a filter in place, is no longer getting in my way.

Another thing to check if you are getting that empty feeling with FCK Editor.

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

tonkatrucker — Jun 08, 2012, 11:50 PM

Try checking "reset" button under Tools > Configuration > Interface & Features > File base path. That fixed the problem for me.

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

ozangov — Mar 14, 2011, 04:08 AM

I had the same prob,

I ve checked the
manager users > click to edit user > User (tab)
> Uploadable Image Types (check "Use System Configuration Setting")
> Uploadable Media Types (check "Use System Configuration Setting")
> Uploadable Flash Types (check "Use System Configuration Setting")
> Uploadable File Types (check "Use System Configuration Setting")

worked for me!
I hope it helps

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

eerne — Dec 21, 2010, 06:22 AM

In my case after upgrading to 1.0.4, no more images were displayed, only folders. After digging through the mcpuk ajax and connectors, i found that AllowedExtensions was overwritten by user_settings.inc.php and the sql to only get settings that are not en empty space seemed obvious and working (also the code was there already in comment).

This issue never happen here (same hosting different server). not sure why. this was quite old going from 0.9.6.1p -> 1.0.4

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

sottwell — Dec 21, 2010, 06:04 AM

There is also a Configuration setting to allow front-end users to use the file browser or not.

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

eerne — Dec 21, 2010, 05:07 AM

seems like empty user_settings are overwriting upload_files which make AllowedExtensions to be an empty string. please test: https://github.com/eerne/evolution/commit/1a25bade0b5a55c80baafaf9f193e8f82e171d29

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

migiel — Sep 02, 2010, 04:31 AM

Hi guys,

The very strange thing is that the problem solved it selves by migrating to another server. So i think not all of the servers of my host support Modx or just not the whole package.

I hope this answer helps out others suffering the same problem.

cheers
migiel

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

Chocoholic — Jul 27, 2010, 04:56 PM

I’ve been having similar problems in both 0.9.6 and now in Evolution 1.0.3 (yes, I need to upgrade to 1.0.4), and I’ve just found something out that might help.

When I login as a web user and try to use FCKeditor to view the folder structure/upload a file/link to an existing file, all I see is the top-level folder.

However, the folder structure and all the files are visible (and available for linking, uploading, deleting, renaming etc.) when I open a new tab in my browser and login to the MODx manager with a different login.

So, I can only presume from this that FCKeditor is requiring more access than the standard web login provides, but this doesn’t make sense. Yet my directory access is set to 755 so surely that should cover it for at least viewing the files and folders available.

Does that help anyone (or me?)

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

rivendell48 — Apr 25, 2010, 11:51 AM

Now that you’re with a different host, did you make the necessary changes to the file paths within Tools/Configuration?

@Migiel: don’t know if this could be part of your problem, but if you already have tried everything you found on here you probably don’t have any issues with file paths or write permissions. I just spent the entire afternoon trying to figure out why thumbnails were appearing in some folders but not others, tearing my hair out, until I finally realised that FCKEditor doesn’t seem to like any letters with accents in my file names. The minute a file ends up in a folder with an accent it doesn’t display any of the files in that folder at all. As I had been uploading files with English as well as Irish names, some folders included files with Irish accented letters. As soon as I replaced these characters with standard characters everything displayed perfectly. Hadn’t come across this before.

Re: FCK editor displaying only folders. Images inside folder are not displaying.

migiel — Feb 23, 2010, 04:03 PM

Well, i’m gonna join you in this post as i have almost the same problem.
I can’t see any image or folder in de FCK editor (using modx 1.0.2) but the funny thing is that i can create a new folder but it’s not showing it,still i can see it in my ftp program and modx file manager.

I tried almost all tips found on this forum but no joy.

I hope someone can help us here?

thanks
migiel