Where are profile pictures stored?

LeftBrain

I'm currently running Vanillia 2.0.18.13. http://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk

I had an unrelated hacker issue on my website and had to temporarily delete the folder that contained my Vanilla forum. I copied the folder back to my server and everything works fine except my profile pictures don't show up any more.

I suspect it is just pointing to the wrong folder but I'm not sure. Where are the profile pictures stored when someone uploads them? And how would I go about restoring profile pictures that have already been updated?

When I hover over a profile picture that is not showing properly I see the following link...

http://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/profile/(some ###)/(username)

But when I look at my folder structure via FTP, I don't seen any folder http://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/profile

Any ideas?

Thanks
Perry, 44

peregrine

/uploads folder and its subfolders contains most if not al your uploaded media.

/uploads/thumbnails - thumbnails of images.
/uploads/userpics - large version of uploaded files.
e.g.

http://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/uploads/userpics/464/p2J0TGYYNCDCU.jpg

you can easily figure this out with firefox w/firebug or webbrowser tools to find where image element is located.

if you backup your source folders, that is where your backup is.

otherwise your host probably has a backup they can restore from.

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/21192/which-files-should-i-back-up

LeftBrain

Ah thanks. I did actually find that folder but there are just a lot of missing pictures. I must have lost them somehow.

Bleistivt

You may also want to update your Forum to 2.0.18.13 to prevent a related Hacker issue.

Sorry, overread your first post. It's probably just the old version number (2.0.18.11) still your config

peregrine

@Bleistivt said:
You may also want to update your Forum to 2.0.18.13 to prevent a related Hacker issue.

he said : I'm currently running Vanillia 2.0.18.13.

but you are correct @Bleistivt he is actually running 2.0.18.11

Sorry, overread your first post. It's probably just the old version number (2.0.18.11) still your config

I don't think so - it reflects the actual version he is running in the css info and js info, which is 2.0.18.11 and it doesn't read version number from config for that info.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/27541/vanilla-2-0-18-13

and he might want to consider upgrading to 2.1.1 after reading carefully....

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26685/vanilla-2-1-stable-released/p1

and

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/27540/vanilla-2-1-1-important-security-bug-release

and

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26703/plugins-themes-that-work-and-don-t-work-in-vanilla-2-1

Bleistivt

Well, the assets show 2.0.18.11, where do they get their version number from, index or config?

peregrine

Well, the assets show 2.0.18.11, where do they get their version number from, index or config?

index.

version number in config is not really used unless someone mistakenly writes a plugin or theme to read the info from there. The core and all functions base it off version in index.php. At this point, it is informational in config, but you should manually update config to reflect the config version showing in your dashboard (which comes from index,php).

LeftBrain

Good catch. I thought I was running the latest version.

Actually, I did update to the latest but it reverted back when trying to deal with hacker issues I guess & I forgot.

I tried to upgrade to 2.1.1 but there is a compatibility issue with my theme and I haven't had time to fix it so instead of having a broken theme, I figured I would stick with 2.0 until I can get my theme updated.