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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Nov 21^st, 2018 at 2:35am Could not open a new file on the server, check the paths and chmods /home/slinging/www/www/forum/yabbfiles/avatars/UserAvatars
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #1 - Nov 26^th, 2018 at 6:49am do you mean upload ? if it's an avatar check the size, they have to be really bloody small.
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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #2 - Nov 26^th, 2018 at 11:26am Yeah, I just tried resizing it, even went all the way down to 50x36 and got the same message still.
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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #3 - Nov 30^th, 2018 at 3:01pm Heres the pic I’m trying to use:
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #4 - Dec 2^nd, 2018 at 4:32pm the size limit is 65x65 PIXELS ! so basically, this:
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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #5 - Dec 3^rd, 2018 at 11:05am Ooof, my bad. Thanks for the help. Tried it and I still got the same message. Weird.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #6 - Dec 4^th, 2018 at 7:41am I get the same message - vaguely recall we had the same issue last time as well. Have to try and remember how we got round it. Just upgraded this machine for xp to 7 - so haven't installed the ftp software yet.
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Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this:
Reply #7 - Dec 5^th, 2018 at 6:31pm

Well, this is what seemed to have worked last time: “I'll check the yabbfiles - but unless all these bloody huge pictures have clogged the server can't see why there would be an issue.

Huh - weird. I changed the avatar thingy to 65 x0 'cos it said that would keep the images proportional.
And that's what buggered it up. reset it to 65x65 and it works fine and doesn't resize to exactly 65x65 - go figure.

Anyway, works now.”

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #8 - Dec 9^th, 2018 at 12:13pm nah reckon I probably did what i did just now. just changed the avatar link to the one I posted above. still saved on the forum servers - just in a different folder
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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #9 - Dec 10^th, 2018 at 6:27pm Ah gotcha, thanks for the help.
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Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this:
Reply #10 - Aug 20^th, 2025 at 5:48pm

Hi, I’ve just registered here and tried to upload my avatar. I proceeded with all kinds of sizes (including 65 × 65 px) and file formats (gif, png8, png24, etc.)—to no avail. File size is always under 10 kB. Yet I’m shown the same error message as OP every time.

How did you solve this problem eventually? I can’t really figure from the sequence of posts in this thread.

(I don’t know if it’s customary to revive old threads here, especially if OP and/or contributing members don’t participate any more. If not: sorry for bouncing this old topic, will create a new thread next time.)

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Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this:
Reply #11 - Aug 20^th, 2025 at 11:46pm

No problem at all bumping the thread. This is an issue that's basically fallen into the category of 'we have to live with it'.

There is a workaround. You can find it here: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1717034891. I'll pin the post so maybe it will be easier to find. Probably should have done that when I created it. Let me know if you have any problems.

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Joost Pinda Tiro Offline Always look on the bright side of life Posts: 17 Western Europe	Re: Trying to change my profile photo and keep getting this: Reply #12 - Aug 21^st, 2025 at 12:58pm Thank you Joe, that makes sense. (Well, the ‘how’ does—the ‘why’ is another story …) I’ll use the introductory post to embed my avatar, then. Edit: I did it and can hereby confirm that the method worked for me.
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