Userpic

There are a number of good resources in our docs about userpics. Do any of these help you?

This is what happens when I try to upload userpics:
-I select a file to upload
-The upload page turns to a white box and stays there, no indication of whether it is complete or not
-After three minutes of waiting, I click refresh on the Edit Profile page window behind the unmoving white box
-No userpic has been added to my profile
-If I go to "Select Userpic" again, the file I tried to upload appears in the list but if I select it, I only have the option to Cancel - which doesn't load anything. Continue is entirely greyed out.

Nothing in the documentation addresses this problem, or gives guidance on what limitations there are on file size or type for userpics. Also, nothing in the documentation specifies where userpic files are located as I wold like to delete the copies that were made when I tried to upload the same file again thinking that it had failed the first time.

I can upload a user pic or select a user pic from assets but it never sticks. So it does not show when I view my profile or see it in the summary when I log in to manage the blog, just the default shadow pic.

@TeapotJedi - that sounds like a bug to me. Surprising given all the testing, but it is sometimes impossible to cover all your bases.

Do you know if you have image magick installed? Are you able to upload images, insert them into posts, and create thumbnails from them? If so, then this is most definitely a bug and we need to fix it.

If not - and you can't create thumbnails then I am willing to bet something is wrong with how Image Magick is installed or configured. God I hate Image Magick sometimes.

Like TeapotJedi and Other Nice Man, I can upload, but the selection never sticks.

I've created a page with some tags in it that should present my user icon:
http://adam.gerstein.net/testing-page.php

Code used:

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  " width="20" height="20" />
  
  

Pulled directly from one of the examples, I think. As you can see on my page, it tries to load an image - namely:
http://adam.gerstein.net/%3Cmt:AssetThumbnailURL%20width=

The code used was supposed to be the code w/ PRE tags around it. I'll post them on the testing-page I linked to....

I see this issue as well. I installed directly off a MT 3.36 install. I have ImageMagick.

Bump - the entry on the forums homepage indicates that the last comment was "Feb 13, 2008", not March 13, 2008 - a bit odd....

Looking at the page the AssetThumbnailURL tag is not closed.

I checked, and don't see any problem. Except for the fact that the MT tags don't seem to be getting processed. I've removed the HTML brackets, and here is what is in the page - both what's in the code for the page and what's in the "finished product":

(ul)(mt:Authors)
(mt:AuthorUserpicAsset)
(li)
(img src="(mt:AssetThumbnailURL width="20" height="20")" width="20" height="20" /)
(mt:AssetThumbnailURL width="200" square="1" /)
(mt:AuthorName)
(/li)
(/mt:AuthorUserpicAsset)
(/mt:Authors)(/ul)

As you can see, I open the IMG tag, then there is the mt:AssetThumbnailURL tag, then the IMG tag gets closed out. I'm a little concerned about the fact that the MT tags aren't being processed - or is this normal for a published page?

If you see an mt tag in the final page then there is a problem with the tag.

(img src="(mt:AssetThumbnailURL width="20" height="20")" width="20" height="20" /)

Should be

(img src="(mt:AssetThumbnailURL width="20" height="20"/)" width="20" height="20" /)

Changed that, still no difference. And I'm now redirecting the error message linked above (http://adam.gerstein.net/%3Cmt:AssetThumbnailURL%20width=) back to this page, right here so that I can stop watching it appear in my error page list.

Of course, now the RC for 4.2 is out, so I guess I'll wait until it's final, then start over on that one with fresh everything.

I'm running two MT installations--4.1 and 4.2--and experiencing the same problems listed above. I upload the pic, then select it, but it never sticks. And I'm running Image:Magick.

Any ideas?

I have the same problem...
Any help?

On MT Pro my userpic half works. On a forum index page it works, but not on specific posts.

Example:
http://existentialmedia.org/nice/

Byrne, before I ask my question just want to ask you to fix the dead link above in your post (http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/athena/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=userpic)

I have been reading quite a bit about user pic. I want to add that. I see the snippets you published. What I don't see is any information about where exactly I put those snippets.

Could you please explain where I paste the snippet or provide a link to an explanation.

]Here's the link Byrne should have linked to](http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=userpic).

And yes, I too am getting the error, with no luck for finding a solution. If I come up with one, I'll be sure to let you all know.

Annnnnnnnnd because we can't edit our comments, I have to repost. [This is lame.]

[HERE IS THE LINK.](http://www.movabletype.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=userpic)

My userpic also won't stick. IM and GD installed, static.
In the html it just returns the path to the mt-static with no full path to a userpic which is supposed to be uploaded. Hm...

I've experienced the same problem
my mt-check.cgi script displays "Movable Type System Check Successful" and Image::Magick is installed.
This is what I've done on Windows XP

#1 haven't worked

1. Installed Apache2Triad


2. Installed ImageMagick


3. Installed MT 4

#2 haven't worked

1. Installed ActivePerl


2. Installed ImageMagick


3. Installed Apache2triad


4. Installed MT 4

#3 haven't worked
The same process as #1 and #2 but I've changed the web software stack with XAMPP and installed Perl module for XAMPP

#4 haven't worked
I've follow these steps from

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/installation/windows.html

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/windows

#5 works perfectly
uninstalled movable type 4
^_^ just kidding

is there anyone can help?

hi guys

I've found the solution with ImageMagick 6.4.9 on Windows.

try to download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1.
I have my userpic now.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2