Avatars and other Profile info

[The Man Who]

My forum is giving me nightmares on how to change certain aspects of the profile.  Ever since the start members have had issues changing their profile - avatars, signatures etc.  The drop down menu doesnt appear for them - or for me.  It does seem to appear to new members but then at some point (seems to be time related) the option just disappears

I know it is not the theme as I have cycled through various themes over the last month or so (how long my forum has been running) and it is an issue with all of them.

I am on RC3 and the forum can be found here http://rugbydungeon.com/forum/index.php [nofollow]

Any ideas?

EDIT: looking across other problems people suggest the permissions are at fault - all my permissions are set to allow users to upload their own avatars etc so it is not that

[YogiBear]

There is a catch I've found on RC3. Even though I don't want members to be able to upload an external avatar I have to enable that permission in Membergroups or they cannot upload one from their pc's either. Also, under Admin, check what sizes you want the limits to be and enable resizing if the avatars are too large.

That won't fix all the problems but give that a go and tell us if anything's different. 

[cector]

The solution of your problem is there. Follow the link:

http://forum.digitallylink.com/index.php/topic,21.0.html

[kat]

To a page you can't access, without logging in.

Good idea!

[The Man Who]

To a page you can't access, without logging in.

Good idea!

he's a spammer, shoved a couple of links up on my forum to try get people to sign up for his

[The Man Who]

There is a catch I've found on RC3. Even though I don't want members to be able to upload an external avatar I have to enable that permission in Membergroups or they cannot upload one from their pc's either. Also, under Admin, check what sizes you want the limits to be and enable resizing if the avatars are too large.

That won't fix all the problems but give that a go and tell us if anything's different. 

Unfortunately all the member groups are set to allow avatars so I know it is not that.  Appreciate the effort though

[kat]

Just curious...

Is your Avatars directory read/write enabled?

What about the Attachments one?

[The Man Who]

Just curious...

Is your Avatars directory read/write enabled?

What about the Attachments one?

how do i check?  I know I should know but have forgotten

[kat]

You can usually check using your FTP client.

Probably using the "Attributes" command.

[The Man Who]

Do you mean the settings here?  The problem is as per this thread

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=405327.0

A lot of description is missing, something else that needs fixing.

Image shows what I mean

[kat]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Seems OK.

Worth checking, though.

[Paul_Pauline]

Just a thought  .............

SMF can have problems running if you have php safe mode enabled, it may be worth disabling it in your hosts control panel.

[The Man Who]

Just a thought  .............

SMF can have problems running if you have php safe mode enabled, it may be worth disabling it in your hosts control panel.

Safe mode is off.

Rather a perplexing one this.

[Road Rash Jr.]

I just registered on your site and was able to change avatars, is the a time line to wait for? I thought I read the problem occurs after some time?

[The Man Who]

I just registered on your site and was able to change avatars, is the a time line to wait for? I thought I read the problem occurs after some time?

Yeah - it seems to happen after a certain length of time, not sure how long (seems to be a week or two).  Thanks for checking it though!

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

I just registered on your site and was able to change avatars, is the a time line to wait for? I thought I read the problem occurs after some time?

Yeah - it seems to happen after a certain length of time, not sure how long (seems to be a week or two).  Thanks for checking it though!

That really sounds strange - have you had any new leads on this? Any progress?