bryan, can you share the contents of /ubb/Avatars directory?

If you mean permissions, it's 777.

The content is back to stock.

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OK, for anyone else that has the problem, here's the answer, although the actual problem was not disclosed:

From: Kate Sloan
Date: 07 May 2002 at 10:53 AM

Hello Bryan,

It's all taken care of - it was just a tiny issue regarding permissions and hitting the Upgrade button fixed it (didn't actually upgrade anything, it's just the process that the Upgrade feature goes through that we needed). I tried uploading an avatar to your avatars directory and it works fine now.
Let me know if you have any other problems!
Thanks,
Kate


Thank you,
Kate Sloan
Infopop Corporation


Thanks Kate!!
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This may be the problem - I see there is a javascript file in the avatars directory, presumably created after the 'upgrade' function runs. I only presume this because it is not present in the zip files.

Anyway, when I deleted all the old avatars and added my own, I'm sure I deleted this file as well, as I selected the whole dir contents for deletion.

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I deleted all of the UBB stock avatars from the Avatars directory on my server.

I uploaded some of my own.

When I try to change to a new avatar in “my profile” it doesn’t take effect on the board. It keeps the current avatar. However, I noticed that if I go into control panel and upgrade my board, the new avatar finally appears.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Using 6.3 - I have a heap of non-stock avatars (and the ot_avatars_lib.js file ) but have no problem changing one . . .

I only need to clear cache and "voila".

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guvner,

Clearing the cache worked. Thanks.

It seems kind of weird that this has to be tied into the cache.

When a member changes their avatar in their profile, and then they don't see it live on the board right away, they're going to think they're doing something wrong.

Is clearing the cache every time someone changes their avatar really the only way for people to see their new avatar on the board?

No problems here - what I also did was to rename all the IP ones x..... so that all of our own ones will show up before the IP ones.

Didn't have to clear the cache.

Also not sure what the permissions has to do with it, as these are image files, so the permissiosn should not be an issue.

I re-uploaded the stock UBB Avatars directory to my server and upgraded my board in control panel.

However, I’m still having problems.

When I change an avatar in my profile, I can’t see the change take effect on the board until I go back into control panel and upgrade my board. Clearing the cache doesn’t even show the newly selected avatar.

Any ideas? Thanks very much.

After clicking "set url", are you getting the avatar showing up (top left) or the red cross placeholder?

If the avatar shows up are you sure that you're clicking on "update profile"?

If the red cross is there - remember the file names are case sensitive . . . I ran into that problem yesterday when I provided a custom avatar to a member who'd emailed me a pic.

After editing it to make it conform, I upped it 4 or 5 times without result until I realised that the filename was Archer.gif and I was pointing to archer.gif (doh! )

maybe????

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[This message was edited by guvner on May 12, 2002 at 03:13 PM.]