UPSB v3

Board Help / Can't use personaly photo/avatar from comp

  1. Nachoaddict
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 04:39:12

    Whenever I go to set my personal photo or avatar, and I browse files, and I select waht I want, and then hit "update";

    Firefox actions retarded and says:
    The connection was reset
    The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
    * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
    moments.

    * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
    connection.

    * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
    that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

    I've tried this on Opera too but I get a similar error message.

    Help?

    The only reason I have an avatar is because I used one from a site which seems to work fine.

    EDIT: I'm using a .jpg pic btw

  2. strat1227
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 04:49:28

    Have you tried a different browser yet? 99% of the time that'll fix something like this, and especially since it's just a one-time thing, that'd be my first step.

  3. Sankaku
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 05:19:42

    try uploading your pic to photobucket or imageshack and referring it from there.

    i tried uploading a pic from my computer for the personal photo before, and i got the same error. then i put it on photobucket and it worked fine. dont know if it'll work though, this was a while ago lol

  4. chrisPS
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 09:08:02

    Weird. Mine worked. O.o

  5. Nachoaddict
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 21:53:44

    tried ff opera and ie strat.

    kaku yeah thats fine for avatar but as far as i know fo personal photo it has to come from ur comp

  6. JC
    Date: Fri, Jun 18 2010 22:23:25

    i think i did something similar to kaku, try uploading to imageshack or something, and tehn resaving it onto your computer
    maybe the file's too big? i dunno, but sometimes resaving it off of imageshack sometiems works =\

  7. Nachoaddict
    Date: Sat, Jun 19 2010 01:42:30

    alright ill try that when i get home

    EDIT: Tried what JC suggested. Didn't work.

    What do you suggest I do now?

  8. blahblahting
    Date: Sun, Jun 20 2010 21:59:23

    This worked for me:

    Using MS Paint, open the picture you want to use. On the top, click Image>Stretch/Skew, shrink the picture, then save as something else if you want to keep the original picture. This results in a smaller file size, which was the problem for me even though UPSB didnt actually say it was the problem.

    Hope this helps tongue.gif

  9. Nachoaddict
    Date: Sun, Jun 20 2010 22:03:43

    Holy shet Blah's right. Works for me now ^^

    Alright I think I know why now. If you try to edit a pic and leave it in paint (like I did) it ends up as a pretty big file. So using a combination of JC's and Blah's methods is best. Save as a jpg and upload/download again from photobucket if oyu need to as long as the pic is less than 50 kb.