Avatars

icsys · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

No red cross at my end either.. It has to be a caching issue.
Generally it is ISP caching that is the problem. Done to speed up browsing through their servers.

Given time it will clear.
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Fletch · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject:

it's gone or it was in my imagination!!!

Mearns · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject:

I've been having the red cross problem for well over a week. I decided to replace my avatar with one from my hard drive - it met all the parameters specified ie max 64x64 and max 6k - but with no luck. I've tried refreshing the page as suggested on this thread but it's still there.

Are you guys seeing the red cross? - Probably not from the responses to date. So I suppose I'll have to wait for it to disappear and then try uploading again.
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Fletch · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:22 am Post subject:

i can see your red cross and you were the one of the people i mentioned in a earlier thread as having one, mine cleared the day after i cleared all of the cookies and history files of my computer so if you havent tried that i suggest you start there.

Mearns · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

Thanks for that, Fletch - I've done as you suggest and at least it's cleared the red cross from my profile page, so hopefully as in your case it will disappear from the forum pages in due course.
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AlfieB · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

Well

I firmly believed that after reading the post regarding the Red X that this problem was to do with my PC. We're at my daughters today and although I've had a several glasses of very nice wine I'm still seeing Red X's on this thread. I can see it on Mearns posting.

So I'm just as confused Guinness

and No it's not the booze.

Any other suggestions Question

Regards

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icsys · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject:

Hi Mike,

No it's not the booze. I see a red X too.

I am on a different PC with a direct connection so on this occasion I think that the link to Mearn's avatar may be wrong!
It should be http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules/Forums/images/avatars/
or to wherever the image is stored.

Therefore the browser can't find the image to display it, hence it shows the X.
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AlfieB · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

I knew I knew I wasn't drunk Happy

and the PC I was on was new.

I'm back on my own PC now and it's still happening, I've done everything that has been suggested, deleted TI files, Cookies, History etc but still to no avail Confused

I've not got to the stage of tearing hair out cos there ain't a lot of that left but I think I might have another drink, seeing as it's Fathers Day Happy

and leave it to the experts Cheers!

Happy Days

Regards

alfieB

PS, I've suddenly thought where I've seen this Red X before and it happens with Navman e-mails. At the very end of their e-mail is a legend saying "this message is confidential etc." and that has a Red X there as well
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Mearns · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject:

Hi icsys/AlfieB - Just to confirm - I haven't got an avatar loaded at the moment so the link shouldn't be wrong. I can't get an avatar uploaded at the moment ......just get the X when I try. Ain't computers fun!
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Mearns · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

Just for amusement I copied your avatars into Photoshop - no problem. Then I copied the X in my post and nothing showed in Photoshop because the graphic doesn't exist!! Looking at the properties of the X it just gives the URL of this site, nothing else.
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Dave · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:58 am Post subject:

Mearns, I have fixed your avatar.

As said before, Avatar's are limited by 64 pixels by 64 pixels. You have to link to Avatar's off-site, and not to a hard disk. The max size is 6144 bytes. Providing you save it as a GIF format, and comply with these settings, the Avatar will show.

Mearns · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

Thanks Dave......still confused though.......what does "Upload Avatar from your machine" mean in Profiles? I had taken that to mean I could use "Browse" to select a gif file from my hard drive and upload it as an avatar, but if I understand you correctly it has to link to a file stored on a web site?
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icsys · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:38 am Post subject:

Tony,

"Upload Avatar from your machine" means you can browse your drive for a suitable gif image and, provided it is within the limits of 64 pixels by 64 pixel and a max size of 6144 bytes, upload it to the forum server and display it as your avatar.

"Link to a file stored on a web site" means if you know the path to an image on a website you can use that as an avatar provided it is within the limits as above.

I.e.

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Mearns · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

That's it - I give up! Dave cleared the X so I tried to upload a 64x64 GIF, 4K in size and all I got was the damn X back. So I'll just live with that - there are more important things to do! I should have kept the original avatar I uploaded last August - had no trouble with that one.
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Dave · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

I suspect there's a problem within the image itself, mail me the image and I'll take a look.

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