When you are helping someone with their Mac the attachment size limitation can make it very difficult for them to post a screenshot that can actually be uploaded. For example a screenshot of my iMacs screen right now comes to 436kb which is way over the limit, and my desktop is fairly boring (it has the Apple default background, as well as this post). I've also hit the issue when screenshotting a website or something.
Now as a someone with 3200 posts who knows quite a bit about computers I know that I can load it up in Preview, change the type to jpeg, and fiddle with the quality slider until it is under the 250kb limit, and then it works fine, but that's fairly difficult for the typical person who needs help.
Would it be possible/practical to increase the limit to 500kb? Alternatively could we have some automatic software built into the file uploader to automatically convert the .png to a .jpg and shrink down the screenshot to fit the current attachment limit?
Thoughts?
Now as a someone with 3200 posts who knows quite a bit about computers I know that I can load it up in Preview, change the type to jpeg, and fiddle with the quality slider until it is under the 250kb limit, and then it works fine, but that's fairly difficult for the typical person who needs help.
Would it be possible/practical to increase the limit to 500kb? Alternatively could we have some automatic software built into the file uploader to automatically convert the .png to a .jpg and shrink down the screenshot to fit the current attachment limit?
Thoughts?