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– Have you deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress and changed to bp-default theme just to start eliminating possible plugin conflicts or outdated BP themes?

– If you’re using IE to upload and crop, have you tried using other browsers like FF or Safari?

– Another one is that some have problems gif or png or JPG (all caps) files. Is same thing happening with jpg files?

I tried Bowe’s method using W3 Total cache and Rackspace CDN (CloudFiles) for a 3 dedicated servers setup – 1 db, 2 frontend.
It failed at the crop avatar step. Everything else was fine.
We had to use NFS instead to sync avatars across the frontend servers – ugh.
Still using W3 Total cache for CDN for other files.

@Pisanojm: did MaxCDN allow use of CDN for avatars for you ?

BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH is used during the initial upload. However, during the cropping phrase, this original image is deleted.

It would be possible to do what you’re asking, but it would entail hooking into the avatar cropping process (so the original image isn’t removed) and filtering bp_core_fetch_avatar() to grab this original image when you want to call it.

The crop code is a bit hidden, but after upload, it stores the image somewhere in wp-uploads. After the crop, it deletes that original and saves the crop. If I get time at work, I’ll look up the path (you could just view the img src for an avatar that has been uploaded.

The easiest way I see would be sync directories across the servers, but that’s not without its own issues (sounds like you’ve found some of them). We did have a plugin somewhere that put avatars onto S3; that would be the approach I might take in this situation. I’m not sure if that plugin was ever released publicly.

There aren’t any avatar js files. The avatar code is output in the section of the html. The bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php file handles the actual cropping and saving of avatar files.

The cropping is jquery, so I would look for the avatar files with the label “.js”

Concerning the avatars not uploading part, here is what worked for me.
I run WP 3.1.1 with BP 1.2.8 and I was not able to upload an avatar. After setting the correct permissions, the upload process created an empty directory (no image) – no image was uploaded and accordingly, the avatar didn’t change.
I searched and read posts for hours until I figured that I was missing the GD library of PHP. One figures this out by putting “ in a file on their server and going to the corresponding address (i.e. http://www.mysite.com/phpinfo.php – phpinfo.php being the file you just created). If GD is not listed at all or GD Support is listed as disabled, then you need PHP with GD. If you run the server, that would be done by installing php5-gd (e.g., `sudo apt-get install php5-gd`).
Hope this helps someone.

Just add the following css to your custom stylesheet:

`
div.activity-inner img {
max-width: 500px;
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
`
This sets the height and the width of the image properly. If the image width exceeds 500px (the size of your stream container) then it will (css) crop the image. Hope this helps!

I’ve tried reading through all the above posts, but my eyes started to bleed. Nothing looks like what I’m experiencing, so I’m hoping maybe someone can confirm that and help me find a solution.

When I upload a group avatar to BP on WP 3.1 (no multi-site) running on RHEL, I can see the file upload to /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads/group-avatars/4 . However, when I do the crop and save action, the file disappears from the directory. The permissions are set at 777 with apache:apache ownership, so I don’t know how much more open it could be. Something is removing the image at crop time.

Any ideas?

Hi

I find the cropping tool also missing in IE but it is fine in FireFox – so try firefox

Exact same problem at http://www.fishwrench.com — running WP 3.1 and buddypress 1.2.8. Also running buddypress forum extras v0.3.0 and 1.3.2 of the buddypress activity stream.

This is probably unrelated, but the following line is throwing an invalid character error in IE8: $(#signup-welcome).p(;:last-child’).css(‘display’, ‘none’);

ERROR:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:37:56 UTC

Message: Invalid character
Line: 298
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://www.fishwrench.com/south-metro-bass-club

Closing this topic as we don’t need your posts more than once, please people

I have same exact problem. Any answers?

I don’t have the Sliding Readmore plugin and still experience this problem (can’t crop — image crops only upper left corner of photo) — I experience the issue firefox 3.6.1.6 for PC. Site is http://www.malaria.com

I have the same problem — latest version of WP and Buddypress — crop tool does not function — only shows top left corner of my avatar image. Is this a bug?

I have the same problem — Can not crop the image — I only get the top left corner of my image and there’s no way to move any sort of crop tool over the image.

What do you mean “results in a broken link”? The image was not uploaded at all? i.e. you can’t see the image you would like to crop on screen?
1 – default max file upload size is 2MB
2 – check if GD library is installed.
3 – can you upload images via Page/Post Write Panel and do they show up after you publish the page/post?
4 – change theme to bp-default theme and see if the upload works

So, the avatar cropping just does not appear? Sometimes if the page does not fully load, the cropping tool will not appear.. are you sure the page is fully loaded?

If so, I would check for conflicting plugins, otherwise, did you say you had multisite?

I created a a post, i’m wondering if we are experiencing the same problem