IMAGE UPLOAD METHOD changed on browsers?

Hi, Tina.

It sounds like possibly one of two things (or both).

1) Make sure that on the CMS Builder 'General Settings' page under 'Advanced Settings' that 'Disable Flash Uploader' is NOT checked.

2) A Chrome browser update might have disabled the Flash plugin required for the multiple upload functionality. You can read how to enable the plugin here:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784

As for the images being turned, that's a result of how some devices and cameras set the 'EXIF orientation flag' when saving the digital image. It's not always apparent when viewing the images on the device or even on a PC how they'll upload in advance.

I've not tried this myself, but see in CMS Builder an experimental option you might want to try if your client has a lot of rotated images. Looks like you'd toggle 'false' to 'true' where shown below. If you don't get out-of-memory errors, maybe that will work for you.

(from /lib/upload_functions.php, around line 225 in v3.08):

// [experimental] rotate uploaded JPEG file if EXIF Orientation flag has been set
// explanation: certain cameras save rotated JPEG content and use a poorly-supported EXIF flag to tell users the image must be rotated (90, -90, or 180)
// our resampling code, which relies on GD, doesn't respect or preserve that flag, which can result in certain uploaded files being saved with incorrect rotation
// in testing, doing rotations like the following before resampling caused out-of-memory errors on reasonably large image files, so this fix has been disabled by default
$fixJpegExifOrientation = false; // defaulted to false to avoid potential out-of-memory errors

Hope that helps you.
~ Deborah