# Uploading video file returns "Sorry, there was an error uploading that file. Please try again."

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**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [28 Setembro , 2017 17:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-video-file-returns-sorry-there-was-an-error-uploading-that-file-please-try-again/70963 "2017-09-28T17:05:08Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [28 Setembro , 2017 19:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-video-file-returns-sorry-there-was-an-error-uploading-that-file-please-try-again/70963/2 "2017-09-28T19:55:35Z")

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Discourse isn’t oriented towards giant video sharing tasks. We recommend uploading those videos to Vimeo, or YouTube, or similar.

Is there anything we could do to make this use case work better though @zogstrip? I’m unsure.

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