# Image uploads are getting scrambled

**URL:** <https://forums.rocket.chat/t/image-uploads-are-getting-scrambled/7951>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/image-uploads-are-getting-scrambled/7951 "2020-08-02T14:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![fabier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fabier](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/fabier)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/image-uploads-are-getting-scrambled/7951/1 "2020-08-02T14:58:49Z")

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### Description

I’ve been running a Rocket Chat Snap server since June. When I stood it up I connected file uploads to an S3 lookalike over at Linode (their object storage). This has functioned flawlessly until last Friday when file uploads started getting scrambled. I really don’t have any better word for it. It’s almost like the uploads are being communicated to the object storage wrong from Rocket Chat and I can’t figure out what is causing it.

I have tried searching around but can’t find anyone else who has experienced this behavior.

Here is an example of one of these images: [https://chat.sonofdavid.org/file-upload/P3vRusPpGmPDbbiv4/2020-05-24%2018.29.28.jpg](https://chat.sonofdavid.org/file-upload/P3vRusPpGmPDbbiv4/2020-05-24%2018.29.28.jpg)

Thats 1/5th of my daughter eating birthday cake and then a lot of scrambled data. If I upload direct to Object storage it looks fine. If I switch to GridFS it also works fine. But something about how Rocket Chat is communicating with the object storage is just not working.

Hoping someone else bumped into this before. I really like the cost savings of using Linode’s storage but obviously it is an issue if all the images come out looking like the matrix.

### Server Setup Information

- Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 2.5.0
- Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Deployment Method: Snap
- Number of Running Instances: 1
- DB Replicaset Oplog:
- NodeJS Version: Latest in Snap
- MongoDB Version: Latest in Snap
- Proxy: Caddy
- Firewalls involved:

### Any additional Information