Hi,

I'm using the following code, to download an image from specific URL and upload it to a media folder:

public class ImageService
{
    private readonly IMediaService _mediaService;

    public ImageService(IMediaService mediaService)
    {
        _mediaService = mediaService;
    }

    public int UploadMedia(string imageSrc)
    {
        IMedia newImage = null;
        try
        {
            var mediaSvc = _mediaService;
            var mediaExtension = Path.GetExtension(imageSrc);
            var imageName = Guid.NewGuid() + mediaExtension;

            var image = DownloadImageFromUrl(imageSrc);

            const string rootPath = "~\\media";
            var fileName =
            HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(Path.Combine(rootPath, imageName));
            image.Save(fileName);

            var parentFolderId = 5177;
            newImage = mediaSvc.CreateMedia(imageName, parentFolderId, "Image");

            var buffer = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~\\media\\" + imageName));

            newImage.SetValue("umbracoFile", new MemoryStream(buffer));
            mediaSvc.Save(newImage);

            if (System.IO.File.Exists(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~\\media\\" + imageName)))
            {
                System.IO.File.Delete(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~\\media\\" + imageName));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // log the exception
        }
        return newImage.Id;
    }

    private System.Drawing.Image DownloadImageFromUrl(string imageUrl)
    {
        System.Drawing.Image image = null;
        try
        {
            var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(imageUrl);
            webRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;
            webRequest.Timeout = 30000;

            var webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
            var stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
            image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream);

            webResponse.Close();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // log the exception
        }
        return image;
    }
}

downloading and saving in to the file system works. the image file can be opened and all good. It gets also uploaded to the subfolder with the ID in the media folder, but the uploaded image file is not really an image file, looks like a zombie.

It doesn't have a thumbnail, no width, height, size, ... I also can't open the image. see the screenshot

any ideas?

thanks

dee