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I have not been uploading for a 2-3 months at Fotolia. Wanted to upload some photos with FTP which used to work in the past but now it cant seem to work. Can anyone help me?

I think Fotolia is no longer working nor it cares any more - I can't use FTP for 3 weeks now and I use the new password scheme. I sent a support request but they say they are going to correct it but they don't.

I think they screwed up big time with this new version of their site - nothing is working as it was and lots of bugs everywhere.

One more example: I was transferring funds to PayPal and to my surprise it transfered the funds to MoneyBooks. Once again I contacted them but they didn't reply. Now I don't know where my money is as it has disappeared from my account.

That's a worry! I made a payment request yesterday, hopefully it will appear in my Paypal, I hope yours get found.

I havn't had any problems uploading, just using the 'normal form', reviews have taken minutes.

Also, downloads have been sporadic, however, I received a 50 credit EL yesterday, so I can't complain.

FTP work ok for uploading from UK to english site, reviewing fast sales sporadic but there is still life.

Apart from ELs, this is my BME in FT.  Of the 8 images I uploaded since the migration, I sold one and some of the others have views, so they're not totally at the limbo. 

But I won't incentivate anyone to upload.  Go elsewhere. 

Regards,
Adelaide

I'm uploading via their flash thing.  It seems okay.  Keywording etc is still a pain.

Views and sales have increased, which, given the time of year, is reasonably encouraging.

I deleted all old files that were missing keywords and uploaded them again.

Note: I don't believe FT are actually sorting the historical keyword problem; what I think they are doing is approving nearly all new submissions, which then get keywords added to the library; in this way they hope to repair the lost words from the past.  What it means, though, is that any old file with unusual keywords (like 'microlight') will probably be lost forever unless a new file is uploaded with that keyword.  Best thing is to go back and delete any specialised image and upload it again.  Just my view.....

I know I'm cynical, but I see a picture of two men and a dog sitting at a 486 computer somewhere in India or Vietnam manually typing in the top seven keywords for each new submission.........

Yes, IPTC works fine.  It's the subsequent sorting of the top seven most important keywords that takes up my time.

Ditto.

I'd even go so far as to say that visualizing the most important seven keywords to describe an image helps me.