[forum avatar] upload not permitted

[Vale]

Hi, I am new here and wanted to upload my own avatar picture.
When trying to upload it from a local file I get "The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved."

Is there any way that could be fixed?

[Alphasoldier]

Try changing the file name or try another file and see if that does work, cause I was able to upload my own Avatar.

Also mind that is has to be 100 by 100 and a valid image file.

[Vale]

Thanks.
I resized it to 100x100, name was okay, it is a jpeg. Still it does not work.

[Alphasoldier]

You could try changing it into a PNG, as in saving it as png, not renaming.
Try that, I don't know further though.

You could always host it somewhere.

[Glamador]

Or you could just open up a photobucket account or something.  That's what I did.

[Vale]

Thanks for the workarounds. PNG did not work either and creating a photobucket account is too much trouble for an avatar icon.
The purpose of my post is to point out a possible forum bug to the admin. Setting the proper rights to the upload folder could solve the problem.