Avatar disappearing from the selector

What are your avatar selection module settings at admin/settings/avatar_selection? It may be that you have the 'unique avatars' option enabled. If so, it means that if a user selects an avatar from the list, it will no longer appear in the list and won't be available to other users. If this isn't the case, then please try the latest dev release of the module as it may already be fixed there. I can't reproduce it at the moment, so any more info you can provide would be great.

Cheers,
Stella

There's no risk with the dev version. It's in a ready-to-release status. This is the last open ticket :)

You mentioned you noticed the issue by checking the logs - can you tell me what error message in the log informed you of the problem?

What sort of user roles do you have configured? I mean in relation to avatars - you can assign roles to avatars, so only certain avatars are available to specific roles. Could it be that the images are no longer available in the selector because the user has the wrong role?

6.x-1.6 has been released, so please try it to see if it fixes the problem.

Ok this is just scary. This issue is very old and seems fixed tough I'm experiencing it. Only difference is that my images are removed from the /sites/default/file/avatar_selection/ folder. Don't really know what more info to supply tough i understand there is more needed. Maybe the maintainer could tell me what to do to supply more info?

I am having the same issue. Does this have anything to do with an avatar being released back into the wild? ie. a user once used an avatar, then switched to their own? (BTW, using unique settings)

Hello maintainer, we need you

Same here, both .dev and 1.6 versions.

Hmm there was a similar issue #566626: Avatar files can be deleted when there are multiple pages of avatars which is fixed in the dev release, but not in the latest stable. If you can provide details of your module settings that would be great. Also if you've any idea on the steps needed to reproduce it that would be very useful.

I've fixed for my installation by copying the selected avatar to a subfolder on avatar_selection_validate_user_avatar function and then assigning that copy to the user instead of the original.

I think it had something to do with imagecache deleting files.

The user would get the original avatar_selection avatar, and when they change their pic imagecache does his thing and deletes the old picture. ( maybe because of imagecache_profiles module )

I'm sorry for not being able to add more info, but i'm currently working on another project, and the config where the issue popped up was a multisite install with like 6 or 7 modules messing with the users pictures...

Reg With Pic
Global Avatar
Imagecache Profiles
Avatar Selection ( tried 6.x-1.6 and 6.x-1.x-dev, both have the same problem )
Webcam Profile ( this one is custom made by me, but if disabled or not the problem is still there )

Those are the ones i remember... But i'm pretty sure the culprit is either imagecache or imagecache_profiles module.

Hmmm I still can't reproduce this. Can you tell me is the file removed from the files/avatar_selection/ directory? Or is it just no longer appearing in the selection widget? If it's the latter, it may be because you have the 'Enable unique avatars' setting enabled.

Does anything appear in the log file?

Yes, the file is removed from the hdd.

And i'm sure "Enable unique avatars" is disabled.

No errors in watchdog, to find out what was happening i've added a debug_backtrace to core's file_delete function.

Ok well let me know if you find anything in the backtrace. In the meantime, can you give me all of your avatar selection module settings so I can duplicate the setup here?

And be sure you're using the latest dev version, just in case. The 6.x-1.6 version definitely has problems.

No more feedback, closing.