Knowledge Base: I’m having problems uploading from my Apple MAC

Our standard uploader (http://vzaar.com/upload) uses a Flash component to do the uploading. This is so we can show progress as your file uploads.

However Flash has a bug in it where to upload a file, it needs to load the entire file in memory before it can do the upload.

This means it’s likely to work fine if you’ve got a 4GB machine and trying to upload a 25 Meg file. Of course if you have a 1GB machine and trying to load a 800MB video file, you probably wont have enough memory for this to work, and you’ll get an error.

In this case we suggest you use our basic uploader (http://vzaar.com/upload/basic) which uses plain old HTML to do the upload. You wont get any progress feedback, but it will upload just the same.

We really don’t like how this works, but unfortunately the bug is with Adobe’s implementation of flash itself and not with our code. We’re hoping this improves with Flash 11 but we’re not holding our breath.