In a discussion with another member this evening, it dawned on me why some are having trouble altering their avatars.
When you attempt to do so, you must remove all the asterisks from the two password boxes and supply your (old or a new) password in each one!
The process is not entirely, if at all, intuitive in that respect, but the values that come provided are the hashed representation of your password already in the system. I don't know why the software either sends them like that or doesn't recognize them as such when you submit the form, but they must be manually cleared and replaced with "valid" information.
Again, you must clear out the two password boxes and supply either your old one or a new one, the same in both, or the server will disregard your changes.
While you're at it, please, Please, PLEASE take the time to resize the intended avatar image to 80x80 and strip out any profile data it may contain before submission to the server.
Glen
When you attempt to do so, you must remove all the asterisks from the two password boxes and supply your (old or a new) password in each one!
The process is not entirely, if at all, intuitive in that respect, but the values that come provided are the hashed representation of your password already in the system. I don't know why the software either sends them like that or doesn't recognize them as such when you submit the form, but they must be manually cleared and replaced with "valid" information.
Again, you must clear out the two password boxes and supply either your old one or a new one, the same in both, or the server will disregard your changes.
While you're at it, please, Please, PLEASE take the time to resize the intended avatar image to 80x80 and strip out any profile data it may contain before submission to the server.
Glen
