# Dashingdon is not uploading **URL:** \ **Category:** Game Development\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051 "2021-06-07T22:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RascaldeesV2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rascaldeesv2/32/144587_2.png) [@RascaldeesV2](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/RascaldeesV2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/1 "2021-06-07T22:52:01Z")
I’m trying to upload a few image files into Dashingdon. Each time I do it says “0 files uploaded” despite the file being displayed where it is supposed to be. Thoughts? Also I cannot get my game’s save feature working anymore using \*sm\_init shattered\_stars | 4 which is… not great. ---
**Author:** ![MeltingPenguins](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/meltingpenguins/32/255855_2.png) [@MeltingPenguins](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/MeltingPenguins)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/2 "2021-06-07T23:06:55Z")
Odd. Okay, checklist: - files loaded via the correct uploading thing? (the one below where you’d upload the txt files, some people overlook that at first) - All files in the right format? - All files smaller than 1MB? ---
**Author:** ![RascaldeesV2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rascaldeesv2/32/144587_2.png) [@RascaldeesV2](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/RascaldeesV2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/3 "2021-06-07T23:09:24Z")
The top upload section is for txt files for me. I uploaded the main bits there. Those upload but the \*sm\_init shattered\_stars | 4 is not working. There’s not even a bar saying ‘bad save’ or anything at the top. Format? My scene files are .txt if that’s what you mean and my images are .png . All files including images need to be sub 1mb? ---
**Author:** ![Rustem\_Khafizov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rustem_khafizov/32/154775_2.png) [@Rustem\_Khafizov](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Rustem_Khafizov)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/4 "2021-06-07T23:11:26Z")
Pictures have to be lower than 2MB, I ran into that issue recently so I know from experience. ---
**Author:** ![RascaldeesV2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rascaldeesv2/32/144587_2.png) [@RascaldeesV2](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/RascaldeesV2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/5 "2021-06-07T23:12:10Z")
Oof. How do you reduce an image file size? ---
**Author:** ![Rustem\_Khafizov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rustem_khafizov/32/154775_2.png) [@Rustem\_Khafizov](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Rustem_Khafizov)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/6 "2021-06-07T23:14:26Z")
So what I did was I’d click on the image and pick “edit”, which brought me to Windows Paint, then I saved the image from there and it gotten lighter somehow without losing quality, I’m not sure why or how that worked, but it did. ---
**Author:** ![RascaldeesV2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rascaldeesv2/32/144587_2.png) [@RascaldeesV2](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/RascaldeesV2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/7 "2021-06-07T23:14:52Z")
I’ll give it a try then. It’ll still be a .png file right? ---
**Author:** ![Rustem\_Khafizov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rustem_khafizov/32/154775_2.png) [@Rustem\_Khafizov](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Rustem_Khafizov)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/8 "2021-06-07T23:15:31Z")
If you save it as such, yes. I would suggest using jpg as that’s what I did, but png should work too. ---
**Author:** ![cup\_half\_empty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/cup_half_empty/32/273983_2.png) [@cup\_half\_empty](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/cup_half_empty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/9 "2021-06-08T02:37:49Z")
jpg compresses and rasterizes the file, png does not. It can be either a blessing or a curse. Also, as far as I remember, jpg does not support alpha channels (i could be wrong), which means no transparency. If possible I’d suggest keeping the images as png. There many online tools that can resize your images. A quick google search should yield some. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Ursu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/sam_ursu/32/111478_2.png) [@Sam\_Ursu](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Sam_Ursu)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/10 "2021-06-08T09:28:48Z")
Here’s my checklist for uploading non-txt files to DD: 1. Is the file name completely lowercase? 2. Does the file name have any special characters (like a \_)? If so, rename it. 3. Is it .jpg or .jpeg? Because DD wants .jpg 4. Is the file under 1MB in size? 5. Is it a .png, .jpg. or .svg? Because other image file types are not supported Assuming all of the above are true, I don’t have any more advice. If it’s #4 though, there are plenty of free websites that will resize photos for you in a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![LiliArch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/liliarch/32/120749_2.png) [@LiliArch](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/LiliArch)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/11 "2021-06-08T13:32:45Z")
Doesn’t Dashingdon accept \_? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![RascaldeesV2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rascaldeesv2/32/144587_2.png) [@RascaldeesV2](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/RascaldeesV2)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-is-not-uploading/102051/12 "2021-06-08T15:28:03Z")
Yeah it was the size. Fixed it now though.