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ok, it took me a few hours to figure this out! then i upgraded to wp 3.0 beta 1 in case this was solved, but the exact same behaviour occurr. with the help of another thread and some research, the solution seem to be working now. you guys maintaining the buddypress site can verify if it works for you as well.

there are two problems here:
– the htaccess file need to be changed for wp 3.0 (and i guess it was the same for wp2.9.2)
– the settings of the main blog must also be modified.

this is what is in my htaccess for wp 3.0
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

the settings of the main blog can be accessed via the ‘sites’ under superadmin and then ‘edit’, all the site options are under there (as i didn’t use the WPMU before i struggled to find the options for a while!)
here there are 3 different entries for upload (don’t ask me why)
1- upload path: i set this to wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files
2- upload url path: i left this blank as after a few experiment doesn’t seem to do anything
3- file upload url: also left blank as it seems to duplicate the base url
i’m guessing this might be a bug, but for now it does solve the problem!

maybe this will save people some time…

have you got firebug? the way i had to try to solve the issue was painful, making one change at a time, but if you inspect the area around where the alt text is appearing you can see the paths where stuff is referring to.

for you i’m pretty sure that it is just a matter to change the path to the correct location. i.e. with MU is wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files, for the standalone it should be under miscellaneous settings and i had the full path to the upload folder (people normally keep it outside the WP installation) and the full url is blank for me.

i had to change the htaccess file because the rewrite gave me issues with the slash ‘/’. if i had it at the start it would duplicate it (i.e. mysite.com//wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files) and if i left it out it would modify the path completely (i.e mysite.com/blogs.dir/1/files). it seems that the upload worked in the second instance, but then the reference to the files is not displaying, whilst the first is breaking the upload as well.
hope this helps you, there is another thread discussing similar issues (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/buddypress-and-wordpress-30/#post-48806)

not sure when and how they will manage to find a solution for everyone. there are tons of post about this issue. have a look at this other one as well:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/avatar-cropping-after-upload-image-and-cropper-dont-appear-fails/#post-43770

although my original solution worked with one host (IX webhosting), i tried the exact same procedure on another one (hostgator) and it didn’t work. i the latter it is not url problem it is something else as the imges appear fine, but the crop is failing.