Same issue, just updated to 1.2.3 from 1.2.2.1 today and cannot upload a new avatar image since the old ones disappeared. Also had fatal errors when using the automatic upgrade. Needed to delete buddypress and do a complete fresh install.
In 1.2.2.1 needed to use the following to correct a cropping issue. Tried it on 1.2.3 and it does not help with the missing image. Not sure if this is still a problem in 1.2.3. Also using BP Album+.
To correct cropping issue:
Go to Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings
Set “Store uploads in this folder” to “wp-content/uploads”.
Set “Full URL path to files” to the REAL FULL PATH of your uploads.
Then change bp-core-avatars.php line 389:
Replace:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;
With:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;
else $path = ABSPATH . $path;
I’m hoping by posting to this question again it will get bumped and maybe someone will have an answer. Going though the forum, I see that I am not the only person having these problems (the same question has been raised in a few different ways, but the core issue is the subdirectory install of WP). Please help us resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ok now I’m just getting the infamous white page of death and nothing at all in the XAMPP error logs…
Ok I finally figured out that my username didn’t have admin rights.. and in some blogs, neither did the admin user 
Now when I get to step two of the buddy press template pack I get this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_is_multisite() in /Users/omaruddin/Sites/waitt-amelia/trunk/wordpress-buddypress-mu/wp-content/plugins/bp-template-pack/bp-template-pack.php on line 188
Not sure when. Working on it between other work. This theme / webapp should work fine on Android devices too. It’s just a web page.
I’ll look into it; no guarantees though.
@putnum01 was just gonna suggest the same thing. that would be so ninja (just like this plugin
How have you built your chlld theme?
Your child theme should reside in /wp-content/themes/.
If you did this, your theme would not be overwritten when you upgrade BP.
Read up on how to build a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Ahh, perhaps it hasn’t upgraded because I never saw it go to the auto db upgrade step.
ahhh i see ok. Anyway to build that into it in further releases?
This plugin doesn’t do that.
You could try using MrMaz’s BP-Links plugin.
It’s more robust.
Ok Ray but what I need is for the smaller image to appear in the activity stream and when a user clicks on it it goes to a bigger size. What am I missing here?
very useful
one question tho, i dont want my users going to the dashboard to see points..
how do i get to display a buddypress displayed users points, it currently only displays a logged in users points no matter wat page ur on when using cp_displaypoints..
anyone know how to do this???
Wrap it around a hyperlink:
<a href="YOUR IMAGE URL">download this awesome image</a>
Oh, hold on.
If you are using BP on WPMU and want to run it on a blog which is not the root blog (root blog is blog_id = 1). See https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ but in your wp-config, add:
define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );
For running BP on blog id 2, for example.
nice work! hope this will be available to us buddypress users? when will it be ready? looking good!
i got this fixed thanks guys!
ahhh ok that worked. What about a way of linking to the original size of the image?
I can see this being a bit complicated, attempting to run BuddyPress on WPMU, and yet not have it on the root blog. The one time I’ve done this is through the use of a multi-site plugin I got from http://ronandandrea.com. I’m thinking when BuddyPress is installed on a WPMU site it ends up being installed as a site wide plugin, across all blogs. The above mentioned plugin allowed me to set up a new blog to function as ‘root’, as if it were a different WPMU site, and I did successfully get this up and running without having buddypress interfere with my previously created blogs. This can be a bit complex though as not all plugins are necessarily ‘site-aware’.
Also, as far as updating WPMU to 2.9.2, I’m thinking that would need to be done for your root blog, and then after you need to go to site admin, and hit upgrade to upgrade all your blogs to 2.9.2, at least that is what I do when I upgrade.
If this helps anyone. I installed 1.2.3 with wp 2.9.2 in this order.
Backed up my database
Deactivated ALL buddypress add-ons
Set all folder permissions to 777
auto upgrade
activate
activate add-ons
Everything works perfect.
Set folder permission back
Ed
