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I’m having issues with group and individual avatar images; they result in broken image links. I have worked through the other FAQs / fixes to no avail.

Symptom:

Uploading and cropping avatars appears to go fine – it even displays the proper thumbnail for each.

The images themselves do not appear. Also, curiously, we get URLs like:

http://noisepages.com/File%20%27wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/21/owen3.jpg%27%20is%20not%20an%20image

In that case, in fact, I look at that directory and the other images are there, but *not* the jpg (ie, owen3.png)

libjpeg is installed, but is it possible something somewhere isn’t finding it?

So far, have investigated:

* Changing directory permissions for blogs.dir (recursively) to 777. It’s set to our user:group that Apache, etc., uses and everything else is fine.

* safe_mode is OFF

* readfile function is NOT disabled

* Standard .htaccess

* Gd/libpng/libjpeg all seem to be fine.

* Currently on BuddyPress 1.0 (final, not RC – just upgraded from RC1)

* MU 2.7.1

* FreeBSD

I will say, the jpegs seem to be what are missing. libjpeg does itself seem to be working as we can upload and crop jpegs elsewhere.

I do NOT get the permissions error message – randomly got it once but otherwise just get a message saying the image was successfully updated (eg, when I change a group avatar)

I haven’t yet tried creating an avatar from scratch to see if that goes better.