Thread: Avatars Denied

I have been unable to load an avatar for many, MANY months now. I have tried dozens all small jpegs as well as linking to other images, but nothing works. I always get the same message:
"Unable to save image"
and at the top of the page it reads:
"Warning: fopen(./customavatars/avatar724_115.gif) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/includes/class_dm_userpic.php on line 373"

I have brought the matter to David's attention, but I gather he's pretty busy. Can anybody HELP resolve this situation?

X

IMO the easiest thing to do is upload your avatar to photo bucket. Then direct link to it. That is typically what I do on forums.

Hi Xman. Sorry to hear about your problem. Instead of trying images found on the internet or this site; if you have a digital camera, you can take some of your own pics. Maybe be your razors or of yourself. Down load them into your computer, once they are there, you can choose the browes option on your avatar options. I can't promise this will work, but it's worth a try anyways. Good luck. STRAIGHT RAZOR 13.

Originally Posted by STRAIGHTRAZOR13

... you can take some of your own pics. ...

That is what I usually try and get the errors I mentioned earlier.

Originally Posted by stdreb27

IMO the easiest thing to do is upload your avatar to photo bucket. Then direct link to it. That is typically what I do on forums.

If I try that I get "Unable to save image" in the box at centre and "Warning: fopen(./customavatars/avatar724_115.gif) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/includes/class_dm_userpic.php on line 373" at the top of the screen. Looks like the same error to me.

I suspect that some permissions have been turned off for me or something, or perhaps there was a setting I had for my avatars which didn't translate when the site moved or was updated or something. I dunno. I'm not a tech wizard.

X

X,
are you sure your image is small enough? also have you opened them in picture editor and saved them as "*.gif" instead of "*.jpg"

also is your browser and operating system up to date?

IIRC you are using a mac ...might i suggst you get a real 'puter?

Hey X,
That is weird. It should work. Could you give it a try from another computer (if you use a mac, could you try a pc?). That would give us an idea whether this is a problem with your user account, or with your browser.

I wondered if you'd already got loads of pictures or stuff filling your account but a quick look at your profile disabused me of this. Nothing much of use to say, sorry, but I recently uploaded an avatar from a Mac so it's probably not that. Try from a different browser perhaps?

Originally Posted by stdreb27

IMO the easiest thing to do is upload your avatar to photo bucket. Then direct link to it. That is typically what I do on forums.

Image Shack sorted me out when I had the same problem.

I had what I believe to be the same problem. I couldn't upload my picture. I tried using both internet explorer and mozilla to no avail.
Then I noticed that there was another place where you seemingly had the same function. Doing it through the options provided by the following links allowed me once again to upload my image( don't recall which one it was that worked).

Edit profile picture
Edit avatar

Don't know if it's the same problem you encountered but it sounds a little bit like it. Also don't know if linking to usercp this way works but if not you can probably find them yourself.

go to Tucows Download and get a avatar program