Avatar Malfunction
I know this has been covered in the past and I apologize in advance but is anyone still having issues uploading an avatar? I've been trying randomly over the past week and have yet to succeed.
Any help is much apprciated. This is the error message I keep receiving...
- The selected file /tmp/J9sbst1319000886_3.jpg could not be uploaded, because the destination sites/mgoblog.com/files/pictures/picture-24740.jpg is not properly configured.
- Failed to upload the picture image; the pictures directory doesn't exist or is not writable.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:16 AM ^
It's been down for months and months. I get the same error message.
If you're desperate to post, you can upload the photo to a free hosting site and put it in your sig line. I use Flickr. Yes, you can put larger pictures in but people get bent out of shape over pictures much bigger than a postage stamp.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:24 AM ^
Thank you. I knew it has been down in the past but saw fairly new users with avatars. Thought they got it back up and running. I'll go with the sig line. I have a gem.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:36 AM ^
chmod 777 /files/pictures/
October 19th, 2011 at 11:38 AM ^
What the hell does that mean, Pahokee? Is it a path?
October 19th, 2011 at 12:23 PM ^
It's in reference to the part of the error that says "the pictures directory doesn't exist or is not writable" - it would make the pictures directory writable on a *nix system.
Edit: This isn't something you could do, it's something the system admin could do on the server, assuming this was actually the problem
October 19th, 2011 at 1:50 AM ^
I was having the same problem when I started my account, and I kept randomely trying and eventually (for reasons beyond me) it worked, so I'd recommend continuing to try on occasion.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:57 AM ^
Any word on when it'll be fixed?
October 19th, 2011 at 7:48 AM ^
I've had the same problem since the Malware crash earlier this year.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:42 AM ^
I've had some other problems around here too, like trying to access my recent posts it sends me to an error page, trying to scroll through recent diaries it brings up a list of the past few months then when you click a month it just shows all the main page articles for that month.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:11 AM ^
Nothing gets fixed till the off season. At least post football.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:19 PM ^
Same error, mine has never worked.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:38 PM ^
I've had the same issues including trying to access recent posts.