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Sharing a best practice when using the AI assistant to generate images. As you enter all the descriptive words needed to get the image you want, the tool uses all those words in the jpeg naming convention. For example, icon-of-a-furniture-delivery-man-in-blue-shirt-talking-to-a-customer-with-a-white-speech-bubble-with-a-light-purple-background.jpg. The length of this file created issues with upload to our LMS. At first, the courses would not work at all. Then, after the administrators did some troubleshooting, the courses worked, but the images with these long names would not appear. The final solution was to download the images, shorten the naming convention, upload the newly named image to the course, and republish. I should mention that this issue was not a problem in all LMSs.
This is a good tip! ... reminded me of when I first studied html and limitations of concatenated character limits on filenames. The first time this happens to you it can be really frustrating but something once learned, always observed!
I am someone who learns from writing things down. So I'm going to type out my understanding of what happened:
The AI image generation tool is automatically creating file names by concatenating all the descriptive words from the prompt and this can result in extremely long file names. On top of this, the LMS might have file name length restrictions that could cause functionality issues with the course.
When I experienced the concatenation issues 'back in the day', I recall doing the same thing you did, manually shorten the file names!
Thanks again for posting this tip!