I moved my custom avatars from the database to the file system. I CHMODDED my .customavatars folder to 777 but didn't make the .customavatars/thumbs folder writable. So, none of the custom avatar thumbs were written into files and this broke the custom avatar thumbs in my sidebar (forum block).
To fix this I made the .customavatars/thumbs folder writable (777) and ran the rebuild custom avatar thumbs routine. It worked just fine, but put a "_2" at the end of the avatar file name and my vb is looking for a file name with an "_1". This means that none of the custom avatar thumbs show in the sidebar.
This is what my vb is looking for to display the thumbs in the sidebar: forum/customavatars/thumbs/avatar10668_1.gif
But this is what my thumbs folder has: forum/customavatars/thumbs/avatar10668_2.gif
I could manually change all the file names, but this would take forever.
Any suggestions of how to fix this issue?
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