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Putting up an avatar... using a Mac...


Starkaryan

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Okay, I apologize for sticking this in with all the serious ASOIAF threads, but I've been wanting to put up an avatar for-freaking-ever... I have a MacBook and I'm wondering if that's the reason it's not working... can somebody help me (preferably a Mac-user), I've been through ALL of the helps in the FAQ/Help sections and every time I try to upload one from my computer (my OWN images), it says to contact a Board Administrator... sigh...

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Better chance of getting some help in the section marked 'Help'. ;)

Also, some more details would be useful: what browser are you using? What version? What type of file is your avatar and what size? etc.

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Better chance of getting some help in the section marked 'Help'. ;)

Also, some more details would be useful: what browser are you using? What version? What type of file is your avatar and what size? etc.

I'm using the latest edition of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12. I have also gone through all of the steps of making the image size compatible with the listed restraints (100x100)...

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Uploading directly to the board is disabled, either you put an url or you go without custom avatar. Using a Mac has nothing to do with it.

For reference, since it doesn't seem clear, "URL" means the address of something hosted on a website, of the form (more or less) http://thing.stuff.xxx/optional/other/~stuff/myimage.extension . The hosting website can be anything as long as the board can connect to it, University hosting, your own server, work servers... The easiest, like MM said is a free hosting one, like imageshack.us, photobucket, putfile, tinypic, imagevenue or many others, I use casimage myself. Just upload there and then paste the url they give you into the avatar url field of the board.

Apologies if you knew that already.

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Okay, I apologize for sticking this in with all the serious ASOIAF threads, but I've been wanting to put up an avatar for-freaking-ever... I have a MacBook and I'm wondering if that's the reason it's not working... can somebody help me (preferably a Mac-user), I've been through ALL of the helps in the FAQ/Help sections and every time I try to upload one from my computer (my OWN images), it says to contact a Board Administrator... sigh...

I use a Macbook and I'm having a problem too. I paste in my imageshack link and hit the update button and it says no avatar was selected.

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I use a MacBook Pro and Firefox and have no problems. I go to an image hosting site (either imageshack or photobucket), re-size the image, and then paste the direct link into my controls. I haven't had a problem yet...

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