diff --git a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
index f99a4001b..ef0557def 100644
--- a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
           end
         end
         photos.update_all(:pending => false, :public => public_flag)
-        photos.each{|x| x.queue_post_process}
+        photos.each{|x| x.queue_processing_job; puts "i did it"}
       end
 
       if request.env['HTTP_REFERER'].include?("people")
diff --git a/app/models/jobs/process_photo.rb b/app/models/jobs/process_photo.rb
index c761b2102..04cd3c1e8 100644
--- a/app/models/jobs/process_photo.rb
+++ b/app/models/jobs/process_photo.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ module Job
   class ProcessPhoto < Base 
     @queue = :photos
     def self.perform_delegate(photo_id)
-      Photo.find(photo_id).image.post_process
+      begin
+        Photo.find(photo_id).image.post_process
+      rescue Exception => e
+        puts e.inspect
+
+      ensure
+        puts "photo has been processed"
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/uploaders/image_uploader.rb b/app/uploaders/image_uploader.rb
index 61cc524c0..d3783a9d5 100644
--- a/app/uploaders/image_uploader.rb
+++ b/app/uploaders/image_uploader.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
   end
 
   def post_process
+    self.send(:remove_versions!)
     unless self.file.file.include? '.gif'
       ImageUploader.instance_eval do
         version :thumb_small do
diff --git a/public/images/ajax-loader2.gif b/public/images/ajax-loader2.gif
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fdcfaf56
Binary files /dev/null and b/public/images/ajax-loader2.gif differ
diff --git a/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
index 77ca3539c..4aad54724 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/status_messages_controller_spec.rb
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ describe StatusMessagesController do
         @photo1.reload.pending.should be_false
         @photo2.reload.pending.should be_false
       end
+
+      it 'queues all photos to be processed' do
+        pending
+      end
     end
   end