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[sheddyian]

Maybe it's a deliberate security thing, but seeing as I've been here getting on for 2 year I thought I'd upload an avatar for my account.  In the change avatar settings I chose "upload file" and selected the file I wanted.  It thought about it for some time and then said

The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.

Is it deliberate, broken, or did I do something wrong?

Ian

[roseway]

Kitz is doing some background work on the forum at the moment, so it's probably just a temporary situation.

[kitz]

Can you bear with me a little while on this please Ian.  I'm currently working on something which will be affecting mods and certain file permissions.  Unfortunately a few things broke when I last did some manual mods.. IE tapatalk. 

I got things up and running again, but atm some of the settings are basic and some files are not writable.  What you guys may not be aware of is that behind the scenes ive taken this opportinuity and I'm working on getting our very own brand new server, its just taking me a while to config all the software.

Rather than trying to fix what's broken, everything should be set up afresh.
Sometime over the coming week or so there will be an announcement of some downtime whilst I merge this database onto the new and propagate the DNS.

The server is all set up..  I've been doing the wiki today..  Tomorrow  hopefully the forum..  As soon as I'm happy everything is working correctly ill switch it to live.

If its still a problem after then, please remind me

[sheddyian]

Of course!

I evidently chose the wrong time to decide to have an avatar.

I'm not in a rush, I'll try again in a few weeks or whenever you think it might be sorted.

Ian

[kitz]

Heh.. Thanks for your understanding 

[burakkucat]

Of course!

I evidently chose the wrong time to decide to have an avatar.

I'm not in a rush, I'll try again in a few weeks or whenever you think it might be sorted.

Ian

I noticed, earlier today, that S*mum mentioned she was having a problem uploading a picture of Scotty to be her avatar. So Kitz' 'confession' now explains why. 

[Scottiesmum]

I've just spotted this.  I'll just hang on to 'post' Scotty again ...  unless my old one can be 're-established ?     Like sheddyian, I'm not in any hurry 

[kitz]

Ian - if you'd like to try again.   
I may still need to set some permission settings back to how they were previously.   I've changed a few things back, but cant test with my own av since I have full perms anyhow.

Let me know if you get any error messages which will help me find if theres anything else I need to change. 
Thank you

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PS max av size for upload is 80x80 pixels.

[sheddyian]

Just tried to upload an avatar, and got this error

The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.

Although the image I tried to upload was almost certainly larger than 80x80 pixels.  Didn't realise that restriction at the time.

Ian

[kitz]

ok thanks, let me have a look and see what I can change

[kitz]

Changed a setting & everything now seems to be working. 
heh sorry about the ugly plain av I gave you for your profile whilst testing..  will remove it

[sheddyian]

I will try uploading again a bit later when I've modified my picture to be the appropriate size

Ian

[Bald_Eagle1]

It works now.
I have just uploaded a new avatar.

[kitz]

haha..  love it BE.  freaked me out for a minute though when it started to move.  I didnt expect that 

[sheddyian]

Looks like it's working!

Also, I didn't resize this - it's uploaded dimensions are 1458 x 1260 (373Kb) so it looks like the forum software resizes it for you 

Ian