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Posted by: Headrage Feb 14 2005, 03:55 PM

Been trying to upload an avatar for a few days and it wont let me. Never had a problem before. Help?

Posted by: dinomium Feb 14 2005, 03:57 PM

didja try a GIF format? that is the only one I could upload today...

Posted by: Headrage Feb 14 2005, 03:58 PM

No, it was just a small jpeg. I'll try one.

Posted by: Headrage Feb 14 2005, 04:00 PM

Nope, gif no work either.

Posted by: dinomium Feb 14 2005, 04:02 PM

RUN AWAY
It is the curse of the LIME HEADED KAT! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Posted by: ! Feb 14 2005, 04:04 PM

It's been getting progressively worse....

Try renaming it, load NO AVATAR, then load the one you want, tweek the size, then bitch to Andy when it STILL don't work.....

Posted by: Brent Feb 14 2005, 04:21 PM

I had a problem Sat night loading a jpg thats only 72k. Tried for 1 1/2 hrs, but finally gave up. It worked first thing Sunday afternoon.

Tried to convert to bmp, then logged off, then restart computer, etc....Thought it was me but was not.

Posted by: Headrage Feb 14 2005, 04:22 PM

Got it working. Thanks.

Posted by: redshift Feb 14 2005, 04:30 PM

sometimes (because of so many uploads?) you may try 3-4 letter names, or numbers..

I have never had success without using NO AVATAR first, like mikee said.

M

Posted by: Jeroen Feb 14 2005, 04:48 PM

QUOTE (Brent @ Feb 15 2005, 12:21 AM)
I had a problem Sat night loading a jpg thats only 72k

ONLY 72K ????? ONLY????
Dude, that's friggin' huge for a .jpg the size of an avatar

Posted by: Brent Feb 14 2005, 05:32 PM

Wasn't an avatar, so slightly off topic. Dude, it was a pic, so well under 300kb for an attachment.

As an Admin, are you saying for a 300 x 300 pic 72K is too huge to upload? This is good news to know, as I can always reduce the quality in Photoshop.

Posted by: SirAndy Feb 14 2005, 05:38 PM

normal picture upload works fine ...

there's a bug somewhere in the avatar upload code. i don't know why it's crapping out on us so often. both jpg and gif should be fine, 125 x 125 pixel max. ...

one of these days, i'll look into fixing this ...
Andy

Posted by: Brent Feb 14 2005, 05:41 PM

QUOTE (SirAndy @ Feb 14 2005, 03:38 PM)
normal picture upload works fine ...

Thanks Andy!!!!!

Posted by: Jeroen Feb 14 2005, 05:45 PM

99% of the posted images posted here could be reduced in size without any noticeable quality loss
It's a big waste of bandwidth and storage space

Posted by: ! Feb 14 2005, 05:49 PM

Reducing jpegs is easy...the gifs need special software not always bundled with typical photo software....

Maybe if the admins can get a jpeg/gif reducing program that allows us do it on the site prior to upload.

Posted by: Brent Feb 14 2005, 06:02 PM

QUOTE (Jeroen @ Feb 14 2005, 03:45 PM)
99% of the posted images posted here could be reduced in size without any noticeable quality loss
It's a big waste of bandwidth and storage space

I hear you. I just wanted the quality to be high for others to borrow if needed. At least I don't post the same pic over and over and over.....

Posted by: dinomium Feb 14 2005, 06:20 PM

And I hope nobody is taking this as complaining, cuz it is not. BUT when I try to change my Avatar, it defaults back to an old photo no matter what name I choose...
weird huh?

Posted by: SirAndy Feb 14 2005, 07:02 PM

QUOTE (dinomium @ Feb 14 2005, 04:20 PM)
And I hope nobody is taking this as complaining, cuz it is not. BUT when I try to change my Avatar, it defaults back to an old photo no matter what name I choose...
weird huh?

yepp, because the upload fails and it falls back on the old pic ...

or, your local cache has a old version of your avatar and your browser is set to look up the cache first ...

Andy

Posted by: seanery Feb 14 2005, 08:16 PM

shift + F5

Posted by: SirAndy Feb 14 2005, 08:23 PM

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 14 2005, 06:16 PM)
shift + F5

CTRL + Refresh

Posted by: seanery Feb 14 2005, 09:13 PM

oops...I mean CTRL + F5

Posted by: dinomium Feb 15 2005, 11:13 AM

I can still only post GIFs waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You can't really SEE just how ugly the side scoop is!!

Attached image(s)

Posted by: red914 Feb 20 2005, 10:39 PM

it has occured to me, dino, that there may be some members here interested in seeing the "over-the-shoulder-maplights" mounted on both sides of UGMO's backpad...

just trying to help

Posted by: SGB Feb 20 2005, 11:51 PM

if I check the dimensions and enter them into the boxes it helps my av work.

Posted by: redshift Feb 21 2005, 12:33 AM

ok, that is ugley.u.glee.

M

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