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tayloegray
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Hey,
I am having this problem of uploading Avatars with BuddyPress. The version of Wordpress I am using is 3.01. The installed version of wordpress is in a subdirectory of the domain, so its http://www.example.com/blog/wordpress-install.
I have tried to change the permissions to 777 but I still get the error message: Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /avatars/1/. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
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Developer (joined August 2010) Likes (1)Liked by: 
Hey tayloegray,
Try setting the permissions of the following directories to 777:
/wp-content/uploads/
/wp-content/uploads/avatars/
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate (joined July 2007) Likes (0)
Do remember also that the avatars plugin from here is not compatable with buddypress. bp has its own system built in and they conflict.
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