# Paperclip gives an strange error message

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paperclip-gives-an-strange-error-message/174706>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 31, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paperclip-gives-an-strange-error-message/174706 "2009-08-31T18:19:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![gorter9](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@gorter9](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorter9)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paperclip-gives-an-strange-error-message/174706/1 "2009-08-31T18:19:11Z")

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I installed my railsapp on my server and now i get a strange error when  
i tried to upload a photo.  
On my macbook it works well but on the server i got next error when i  
create a new post

Photo /tmp/stream.22042.1 is not recognized by the ‘identify’ command.  
Photo /tmp/stream.22042.1 is not recognized by the ‘identify’ command.

The message came as an error message on the website

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**Author:** ![gorter9](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@gorter9](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorter9)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paperclip-gives-an-strange-error-message/174706/2 "2009-08-31T18:41:32Z")

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On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:19, GG9 Rails wrote:

> The message came as an error message on the website  
> It means the ImageMagick installation on your server doesn’t recognize  
> the file you’re passing to it (for processing). It can be a number of  
> things:

- ImageMagick not compiled correctly
- ImageMagick compiled correctly, but not with the library that  
processes the filetype you are giving to it
- Some other stuff that doesn’t come to mind right now 🙂

Best regards

Peter De Berdt