Attachments not appearing but are there

[cdaniel]

I have a number of threads where the attachments are not appearing. Here is one of them: http://forum.portraitartist.com/showthread.php?t=2516
All except the first post has an image attached.

However, when I use search attachments in AdminCP for the relevant dates, I find the correct attachment files listed in the results. When I then click "view post" on one of the attachments, the attachments now appear in the post. But, when I go back to that post through the forum url, they still do not appear.

[Steve Machol]

Check your Moderated Attachments queue.

[cdaniel]

Check your Moderated Attachments queue.

I already have.

[conqsoft]

Did you revert postbit_legacy?

[Steve Machol]

Create a new style with no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Then look at that thread with this style to see if you see the attachments.

[cdaniel]

Are the things you are both telling me still relevant if this is only happening sporadically?

Even in v2, I would get images that would mysteriously disappear from posts, but I could never prove they were still there. Now I can prove they are there with v3.

[Steve Machol]

Yes it's still relevant.

[Jake Bunce]

Are we talking about multiple inline image attachments? If so, check this setting:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Attachment Options -> View Attached Images Inline

Set it to Yes if you want to display multiple inline image attachments.

[cdaniel]

Are we talking about multiple inline image attachments? If so, check this setting:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Attachment Options -> View Attached Images Inline

Set it to Yes if you want to display multiple inline image attachments.

No, these are all images from v2. I already have that set to yes. But, thanks! Could it be a problem with the database?

[Steve Machol]

Have you tried my suggestion yet?

[cdaniel]

Create a new style with no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Then look at that thread with this style to see if you see the attachments.

No, I would have to take some time to figure out how to do this. It's not knowledge that is at the tips of my fingertips. It's on my to-do list.

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> [Add New Style]

After adding the new style, go back to your Style Manager and click on the style's name to view it.

[PCTORQUE]

EXACT same thing just happened to me today when upgrading to RC 3.4 to fix a major timestamp bug we had in RC 3.2 we couldn't fix. Here's a post it happened to:
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=9961
Under every pic there used to be a full size attached .jpg

I tried deleting the attachments and uploading them again which didn't take care of it, but adding a new style I named "test" allows the viewing as you said. BUT when I change back to the other style, they are gone again. Does this mean I will need to delete all the original styles and recreate them so everyone can see attachments?

[Steve Machol]

Yes. Obviously the problem is with the styles, or more correctly the templates. They were most likelt created in an earlier version of vB and you never reverted the templates.

[cdaniel]

All of my templates were reverted when upgrading to v3. In my case, the missing attachments were related to threads that had moved from one forum to another. This was a problem we experienced in v2 also when moving a thread.

Anyway, for now I've just hand-added them back in and will watch to see if it continues to be a problem. Perhaps it was something left over from v2.