It's hard to explain...

[A Dead Puppie]

TL;DR version is I restored my forum data (usernames/posts) via copying the MySQL entries and there are a few odd bugs I do not know why or how to get rid of.

When anyone browses a thread (from the backup and new ones) any user's avatar doesn't showw up at all and it says "guest" underneath it like so (http://machinimaevolved.net/forum/showthread.php?588-Hiyo!&p=1741#post1741) even though if you visit the profile of said user the default avatar is there with all of the regular info.

how do i fix this?

[Dave]

Maybe you should login into the admincp and go to Maintenance > General Update Tools and run the update tools? Be sure to backup your database before doing this.

[RichieBoy67]

TL;DR version is I restored my forum data (usernames/posts) via copying the MySQL entries and there are a few odd bugs I do not know why or how to get rid of.

When anyone browses a thread (from the backup and new ones) any user's avatar doesn't show up at all and it says "guest" underneath it like so (http://machinimaevolved.net/forum/showthread.php?588-Hiyo!&p=1741#post1741) even though if you visit the profile of said user the default avatar is there with all of the regular info.

how do i fix this?

Like Dave said, run the update counters tool in the maintenance section in your admincp. Make sure your folders for custom avatars, etc are set to 777 and have read/write access.

Also be sure your file paths are correct if you are serving your avatars from the file system.

[A Dead Puppie]

Awesome, it fixed it, thanks!