Quote Originally Posted by nigelt74 View Post
1) read through the thread, that error message has been discussed many times, 99% of the time it means you are using invalid characters in image file names, which cause image handler to choke. The image handler documentation and zencart documentation both explain what the invalid characters are, but basically stick with alphanumerics and dashes and underscores and you ahouldn't get that problem.

2) What size are the images you are trying to upload, some servers may timeout if the image takes to long to upload
Thanks Kiwi,
images are only small (20-50kb .gif files) and server time out is not an issue and no special characters are being used - images were all loading fine before I installed IH3 - not even sure what advantage IH3 is given that 1.3.9h resizes images in any case? Having said that I do not think it is an IH3 problem - something is preventing the loading of ONLY DEFAULT image to the product page period. As a stop gap I have been inserting the default image by using EXAMPLE <img src="XYZ.gif" alt="ABC" /> but even that now will not produce an image on the product page - it will show however the "alt" description.

Does Google Merchant "use IH to resize images" true / false have any effect - seems the issue started when I loaded Goggle Merchant Feeder. Do any other Image Configs conflict with IH3. I no longer name images with suffixes (_MED, _LRG). Bit of a head scratcher.

cheers,
Mike