Zero times a week. I stopped uploading when I stopped seeing results.

This is great I've been a fan of Fotolia for 10 years with thousands of images. I see the port in my adobe account....but the uploader just does not seem to be working. I can't see my files uploaded and I can't keyword them because they do not upload. I'm uploading the correct file types. I provided an image of my screen. Kind of at a lose....does anyone know how to upload to adobe?

Their eps conversion went down a few days ago. I'm not sure what the ETA is on it being back up. Here's the thread:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/eps-vector-uploads-temporarily-disabled/msg487310/?topicseen#new

Quote from: cthoman on April 30, 2017, 11:04

Quote from: Shelma1 on April 30, 2017, 05:46

Do you not want vectors any more? You already make it more difficult to upload by requiring zipped files...now you require a different file format than anyone else. Honestly, I'm not going to go back and resave everything as .ai.

I already have to make bigger jpegs, so requiring .ai would probably be the end for me. I don't mind the zip thing much. I have a good script for that.

Care to share the script please? It would be super handy.

It was in a thread. I guess you read it, but here it is again:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/software/faster-zip-eps-and-jpg-files/msg467535/#msg467535

I guess that explains my issues this morning. Thanks for letting us know. I guess Adobe uploads are checked off my to do list. 

i normally do not worry too much about slow monhts, but i was about to come here and open a thread on sales on 123 and saw this thread,

oddly enough, i have the same experience, i have an exceptionally slow month at 123 and was wondering if something is the matter

lets hope its a reporting issue,

I don't normally worry about it either, but it was such an abrupt decline the last month and this month even more that it made me wonder if it was happening to others.

I thought the auto-category was kind of pointless. It's fun to see what it picks, but I usually just end up changing or choosing it anyway. I guess I never reorder my keywords. Didn't realize that was still a thing.

It is definitely the first time I've ever really felt paranoid that sales aren't being accurately recorded. I'm not really sure what they can do to get that trust back or if there will ever be a clear resolution. I guess this is what happens when you completely destroy the iStock reputation.

I'm going to say prices. The volume end of the business isn't very sustainable, so it would be nice to see a shift to lower volume and higher prices.

Everybody gets the same quotes and I try to be polite. I usually see the same types of jobs over and over, so I probably could make a form letter. I've written the same email so many times though that it is pretty much memorized in my head anyway.

It's definitely less lucrative, but I'm not sure it is ruined. I do wonder what happens if more and more people just stop making money. Will contributors leave? Will agencies collapse? Will new ones rise up? Things seem to shift around a lot in micros brief history, so I'm not entirely sure how it will all play out. It could just limp along like it is for a while too.

Hmm... It would be nice to get paid more. The earnings trend as a contributor seems to be going down and interest as a contributor has definitely waned. Just in case they want to hear it. There it is.

I enjoy the work. From a business perspective though, it doesn't make a ton of sense to spend copious amounts of time creating new images.