I tried updating my Avatar today several times and the site says upload failed.

I have discovered that my existing avatar has been removed somehow and so now dont have one!

Does not make any sense as i can edit my profile information.

Site tells me to contact a member of staff - but who is and how do i get in contact with the staff and whose staff??

I have tried adding pic to this message and it also states error message: "Upload failed. Please ask the administrator to ensure the uploads directory is available." also says upload is not within allowed paths. So is a setting on site problem.

Please advise how I can get the new avatart pic onto site!!

Try PM'ing Nasher.

PS. If there's the ability to have avatars that are hosted off-site you might want to do that (ie. upload the avatar to photobucket / imageshack etc).

EDIT: Seems it's fixed now

i have the same problem - i get : The upload failed. Please contact a member of staff to help rectify the problem

can someone help? my last pic was also deleted - unsure why...

Not that I'm the most up to speed on this, but I think they're quick to remove copyrighted photos.

I kept trying to put avatars up of certain images I'd find only for my avatar to disappear soon after.

But now using my own picture it's been working fine.

Upload your photos to photobucket.com

Then you can edit it to 150 x 150

Then when you want to upload it just copy the image link into the provided section.

its no good - even when i try an image i made myself i get this msg:

The error returned was:

The upload failed. Please contact a member of staff to help rectify the problem

size is correct and there is no copyright!

any other advice would be appreciated

Try this.

Along with many I've recently lost my avatar .

I can't find where I Edit a new 1 .

Can someone help ?

Go to your name and click profile ,the edit profile ,then upload your photo or whatever.

Thanks Biffo .

As you know ... your the man .

If anyone is still having trouble uploading an avatar PM me and I will arrange for it to be uploaded for you.

what happened to our old ones, did they just vanish?

If anyone is still having trouble uploading an avatar PM me and I will arrange for it to be uploaded for you.

having trouble getting this as my avatar

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b458/hellogoodmornin/bear_grylls.gif

if anyone can help it would be greatly appriciated