Escape Artists
Administrivia => Metachat => Topic started by: Unblinking on March 12, 2010, 02:54:04 AM
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I'm trying to upload a picture to use for my avatar, and when I try to upload it from my hard drive I get the following message "The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved. "
I also tried getting it from a URL, and it doesn't give me an error message but it also doesn't show up.
Any tips?
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This issue's come up before on this forum. Basically, yeah, it's a long-running problem. My avatar's on another site (an old blog post of mine) and I had the forum software link to it (the "I have my own pic" option).
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That's what I was going to suggest: linking to the picture as a url to a different site.
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That's what I was going to suggest: linking to the picture as a url to a different site.
I tried that and it didn't give me an error, but it still doesn't display. Does the image have to be a certain size or certain file type?
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Well I took a look at it and everything should be fine, but I'm guessing that blog doesn't want it to be linked to or... Something. Try hosting the image on something like photobucket. I have my avatar on picassa.
And yes, uploading avatars hasn't worked for pretty much the whole time this forum has existed. I think it worked at first, but I'm not positive.
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Well I took a look at it and everything should be fine, but I'm guessing that blog doesn't want it to be linked to or... Something. Try hosting the image on something like photobucket. I have my avatar on picassa.
And yes, uploading avatars hasn't worked for pretty much the whole time this forum has existed. I think it worked at first, but I'm not positive.
Photobucket did the trick. Thanks!