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Avatar upload
« on: July 18, 2011, 09:07:35 PM »
Tried to change my avatar from that sweet BAMA logo to my South Atlanta Wrestling one and got the following error:
 
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The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.
   
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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 09:12:11 PM »
this one?



maybe you can't use a .png for your avatar?

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 09:15:26 PM »
No, it was the Facebook one which is a .jpg.  Let me double-check the format issue though.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 12:15:17 PM »
You may be able to hotlink it as well

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2011, 12:51:20 PM »
Don't know why I didn't think to do that.  That's what I'll do, but I tested it and I need a resized version of it.  I think I have a better one at home that won't look distorted.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 01:00:01 PM »
Thanks again.  I just pointed it to my avatar on the SAW Twitter page.  I need to resize/clean it up eventually, but that looks good enough for now.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2011, 01:52:14 PM »
I think it's because I did some tuning on SMF (apparently not a good idea to have your avatar main directory in a certain location, so I moved it) and probably didn't set the permissions correctly. I'll have a look at that tonight.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2011, 03:16:27 PM »
My only avatar option is "no avatar." post count related?

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2011, 12:31:41 AM »
My only avatar option is "no avatar." post count related?

Seriously, I'd like an avatar. Did I miss something along the way?

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2011, 10:58:00 AM »
Your account looks the same as everyone else's. Can you change your password and then DM it to me so I can go have a look?

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2011, 01:42:32 PM »
Ok, figured everything out. RickRude, your other avatar options are now available.
 
As far as avatar uploads go, they're turned off, and I remember now, that when the board was set up, I was a bit worried about bandwidth since I'd never hosted the board before and didn't know what kind of an impact this site would have on my hosting plan.
 
It turns out bandwidth really isn't an issue, but in the interests of keeping the board performing well and people not uploading gigantic files, I'm going to keep the upload off for now. Everyone should be able to link to an external source for their images. Let me know if you have any further problems.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2011, 12:40:34 AM »
Thanks for the help. If it's a linked URL it doesn't impact your bandwidth at all, right? The file I found is 62kB which seems a little high but as long as you aren't paying for it I won't worry about it.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2011, 04:14:17 PM »
Linking shouldn't be a big deal at all. Go for it.

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Re: Avatar upload
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2011, 01:03:26 PM »
that avatar is pretty great
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