avatar troubles

Redwngs13 · Trick Member Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Location: Hockeytown

For some reason when I try to upload a new avatar it doesn't work. Lately i've been having trouble with this. It is the right size, 64x64 pixels, and it is under 20 kb. I have it hosted at my photobucket account, and i copy and paste the URL into the box, and when I click submit, it says "Your profile has been updated." but I look back and nothing happend... Anyone know why this happens, and how to make it stop? It's only the avatar I have troubles with, everything else updates fine.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject:

Just to ensure. You're trying to change your avatar away from the 'snowing' one. Yes?
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Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

Actually, I believe if you use the check box (to delete) and also try to insert the link for the new image then you will get the problems.
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Redwngs13 · Trick Member Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Location: Hockeytown

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/Redwngs13/DDR%20freak%20banners%20and%20avatars/LatDicon2copy.jpg
url to my avatar.

and this isn't the first time it's done it to me. It did it with my previous avatar too, not the snowing one, but the one i used before that, which was

I never checked the delete box, I just put the url in there and click submit. Before with the other one that I had problems with, I deleted the old avatar, clicked submit, and it deleted it, then I went back and put in the url to the new avatar, and it never showed up.

edit: I moved the picture in my photobucket to my main page, instead of being in a sub-album, and all of a sudden it now works... i dunno whats up with that...
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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

It's probably because the filename is so long. I imagine the restriction on input fields is at 50 characters or so. If you shorten that folder name to something like just "DDRFreak", you should probably never have the problem again.

Those spaces that are getting expanded to "%20"? That counts as three characters, BTW.

phpBB in general has a problem with invalidating input fields that are too long, but still reporting to the user that whatever they were trying to do worked. I fixed some bugs on our boards related to this earlier this year. I guess this is another one that needs to get fixed, but it's such an unlikely scenario that I think it's probably just easier to fix it on a case-by-case basis.
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Redwngs13 · Trick Member Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Location: Hockeytown

ah thanks, i changed the album name and it works.

thank you!
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