Out of Memory Exception: System.Drawing.Image.FromFile

[anastasia]

I get an out of memory exception when attempting to excecute the
following code:

original = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(file.FileName,true);

I ONLY get this exception when the file is in the "My Documents"
folder or subfolders. If the file lives anywhere else on the hard
drive, I have no problems.

What could be going on here?

Thanks in advance,
Stacey

[PJ]

I had this problem when first learning how to create thumbnails from images.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the specific problem....however, I think
you'd do much better off by creating an Image object from a byte array.
Grab the file from a FileStream object first and then create the image
object from a BinaryReader off the FileStream instance....

If this isn't helping you...post back and I will give you code I use to
manipulate images from files/streams....just don't have it now...it at work
;-).

"anastasia" <ana_stasie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I get an out of memory exception when attempting to excecute the
> following code:
>
> original = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(file.FileName,true);
>
> I ONLY get this exception when the file is in the "My Documents"
> folder or subfolders. If the file lives anywhere else on the hard
> drive, I have no problems.
>
> What could be going on here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Stacey

[Vincent V]

Public Function resiseImage(ByVal fullPath As String, _

ByVal FinalSize As Integer, ByVal NewFullPath As String, _

Optional ByVal DeleteOriginal As Boolean = False) As String

Dim result As String = "Success"

Dim imagefolder As String = Path.GetPathRoot(fullPath)

Dim imagename As String = Path.GetFileName(fullPath)

Dim extension As String = Path.GetExtension(imagename)

Dim height As Integer

Dim width As Integer

Dim BiggerSide As String

Dim myratio As Decimal

Dim futureheight As Integer

Dim futurewidth As Integer

Dim Normal As System.Drawing.Image

Dim newimage As System.Drawing.Image

Normal = Normal.FromFile(fullPath)

height = Normal.Height

width = Normal.Width

If height > width Then

BiggerSide = "height"

myratio = FinalSize / width

futurewidth = myratio * width

Try

newimage = Normal.GetThumbnailImage(futurewidth, FinalSize, Nothing, New
IntPtr())

If File.Exists(imagefolder & imagename) Then File.Delete(imagefolder &
imagename)

newimage.Save(NewFullPath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)

Catch exp As Exception

result = "failed"

newimage.Dispose()

Throw exp

End Try



ElseIf width > height Then

BiggerSide = "width"

myratio = FinalSize / width

futureheight = myratio * height

Try

newimage = Normal.GetThumbnailImage(FinalSize, futureheight, Nothing, New
IntPtr())

If File.Exists(NewFullPath) Then File.Delete(imagefolder & imagename)

newimage.Save(NewFullPath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)

Catch exp As Exception

result = "failed"

newimage.Dispose()

Throw exp

End Try

Else

BiggerSide = "Same"

myratio = 1

Try

newimage = Normal.GetThumbnailImage(FinalSize, FinalSize, Nothing, New
IntPtr())

If File.Exists(NewFullPath) Then File.Delete(imagefolder & imagename)

newimage.Save(NewFullPath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)

Catch exp As Exception

newimage.Dispose()

result = "failed"

Throw exp

End Try

End If

Normal.Dispose()

newimage.Dispose()

If DeleteOriginal = True Then File.Delete(fullPath)

Return result

End Function

End Class


"PJ" <pjwalNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I had this problem when first learning how to create thumbnails from

images.

> Unfortunately, I don't remember the specific problem....however, I think
> you'd do much better off by creating an Image object from a byte array.
> Grab the file from a FileStream object first and then create the image
> object from a BinaryReader off the FileStream instance....
>
> If this isn't helping you...post back and I will give you code I use to
> manipulate images from files/streams....just don't have it now...it at

work

> ;-).
>
> "anastasia" <ana_stasie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fdf3218d.0307312318.ebe30f9@posting.google.co m...

> > I get an out of memory exception when attempting to excecute the
> > following code:
> >
> > original = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(file.FileName,true);
> >
> > I ONLY get this exception when the file is in the "My Documents"
> > folder or subfolders. If the file lives anywhere else on the hard
> > drive, I have no problems.
> >
> > What could be going on here?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Stacey

>
>

[Dean Hough]

I get an out of memory exception when attempting to excecute the
following code:

original = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(file.FileName,true);

I ONLY get this exception when the file is in the "My Documents"
folder or subfolders. If the file lives anywhere else on the hard
drive, I have no problems.

What could be going on here?

Thanks in advance,
Stacey

You are probably running Vista and being punished by its weirdness. Typically you won't get this error if the file is located in a 'normal' folder that doesn't have any special permissions. Big trouble from 'sensitive' directories like "C:\" or "C:\Windows\System32" or... "My Documents". This is from another guy's post on the subject:

"The Out of memory exceptions is being thrown because of the security setting on the file. I copied it into the IIS folders without resetting the permissions. Once I gave ASP.NET permissions on the file (or allowed it to inherit permissions from the parent folder) .... it loaded with no problem."

Possible workarounds: 1) Don't access files in sensitive folders, 2) Copy file to a 'normal' folder and then access and then delete when finished, 3) Change permissions.