Problems with uploading avatars

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   If I want to change my avatar, selecting a picture from an external website works. But when I try to upload a picture from my computer, the process errors out. After the message that says, "Please be patient while the image is uploaded to the server." is displayed, I click OK. Then the uploading stops and the page errors out. Any ideas of the cause?

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DOS lives on!! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 27 October 2011 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Quote Reply Topic: Problems with uploading avatars Posted: 08 June 2012 at 9:59am
	If I want to change my avatar, selecting a picture from an external website works. But when I try to upload a picture from my computer, the process errors out. After the message that says, "Please be patient while the image is uploaded to the server." is displayed, I click OK. Then the uploading stops and the page errors out. Any ideas of the cause?
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Mike Newcomb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 15 July 2006 Location: London UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 532	Quote Reply Posted: 09 June 2012 at 7:03am
	Hi DOS, some more details might help. e.g. :- where you are uploading to. full filename (including extension) of the picture suggest attach to your above post? Googling is helpful. e.g. :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%28computing%29 I wonder if the picture concerned does does not meet, or exceeds the parameters allowed for a avatar on the site to which you are attempting to upload to. e.g. Pixels appear important. Good Luck - Mike Edited by Mike Newcomb - 09 June 2012 at 7:05am

DOS lives on!! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 27 October 2011 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Quote Reply Posted: 11 June 2012 at 2:02pm
	Right under the field to link a picture from an external site to use as the avatar, there is a link called "Upload Avatar." I have attempted this with many different pictures. Some are exactly 64x64 pixels, some are .GIF, but mainly .JPGs. Do you have the exact rules for the specifications of acceptable avatars? I would upload the image, except for this forum software only allows linking images from external sites, not allowing the picture to be referenced locally on the server. I do not know the website in which these pictures came from. Edited by DOS lives on!! - 11 June 2012 at 2:02pm
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barythrin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 July 2011 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 158	Quote Reply Posted: 11 June 2012 at 3:38pm
	Does your avatar mean you figured it out or were you trying to change it?

DOS lives on!! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 27 October 2011 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Quote Reply Posted: 12 June 2012 at 9:28am
	Nope, I linked that one from an external site. Now I want to change it to one that's on my computer.
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barythrin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 July 2011 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 158	Quote Reply Posted: 12 June 2012 at 4:28pm
	Well, tried linking to a larger picture elsewhere and it didn't work either (probably size), although it previewed properly. The upload avatar button and uploading a small test jpg did fail and that was due to permissions on the old-computer.com server per the asp error message. edit: I did get an avatar link to work, it's either size restrictions (for linked avatar files) or could be some sites don't allow linking. This is a png right now. The other thing to try would be a different browser (I'm trying this in Firefox) as far as the upload test went. Edited by barythrin - 12 June 2012 at 4:32pm

DOS lives on!! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 27 October 2011 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Quote Reply Posted: 13 June 2012 at 8:01pm
	Exactly, you've got the error I got. I'm assuming that's something Mike will have to go in and correct.
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Mike Newcomb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 15 July 2006 Location: London UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 532	Quote Reply Posted: 14 June 2012 at 11:58am
	Hi DOS, as I understand it:- a)the avatar cannot exceed 64 x 64 pixels b) you hve to provide a link to it. (Please advise link used) If either or both the above are incorrect it will not upload. Presume the link is to a image/picture library. I understand some libraries do not allow downloading from. Good Luck - Mike

SteveH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 09 August 2012 Location: Walsall ENGLAND Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Quote Reply Posted: 25 August 2012 at 1:54pm
	I had the same problem uploading an avatar from a folder on my PC. It uploaded fine after I placed it on the web and pointed to the URL though. Anyway, here's what I got trying to upload from my PC (via Firfox Aurora 16.0a2): Please be patient while the image is being uploaded to the server Clicking OK changes the URL to: http://www.old-computers.com/forum/upload_avatars.asp?PB=Y And the following is displayed: The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed. Please try the following: Click the Refresh button, or try again later. Open the www.old-computers.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error Internet Information Services Technical Information (for support personnel) Error Type: Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046) Permission denied /forum/functions/functions_upload.asp, line 738 Browser Type: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120823 Firefox/16.0 Page: POST 2336 bytes to /forum/upload_avatars.asp POST Data: . . . Time: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 1:48:57 PM More information: Microsoft Support
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