[ludachris]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I assume you have the avatars stored in the file system? Have you double-checked those directory paths?

I don't think vbulletin does a thing to change directory permissions which is why it seems strange that this would be a default vbulletin issue.

I recently moved avatars to the file system (after we upgraded to 3.8) because a few members were having this problem, plus I've been wanting to move them for a while. After moving them, all avatars were broken, which told me that the directory had the wrong permissions. I set the directory permissions at that point, so yes, the directory paths are correct, otherwise I can't see how they'd be showing up at all at this point.

Unfortunately, I didn't try duplicating the error with my own account before I moved avatars to the file system. I did, however, try uploading an avatar for a user who was having trouble in admincp and found that I could see the avatar in admincp (before avatars were moved to the file system) but saw a broken image in his posts/profile. At that point I tried reverting templates, which didn't fix the problem. I then moved the avatars over to the file system.

The problem lies in the file permissions of new avatars that are uploaded - they're being created with the wrong permissions. There is no problem with existing avatars after I fixed the permissions. The developer at vbadanced couldn't figure this out either. Again, this only started being a problem after we upgraded to 3.8 from 3.6. Something must have changed in vb.