Custom Avatars missing after upgrade to vBulletin 5.6.2 Patch Level 1

[UKCobra]

Ok, so I managed to find where my install of VB is taking the Custom Avatars from, and that is forums/images/customavatars

Just copied the files there and now they have started to appear....

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I also tried switching them back to the database and then reverting back to the filesystem, but there is no option to revert back to the filesystem. How do I do that ?

UPDATE : I managed...

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Hello Wayne,

This is what it looks like, but I cannot get the values to change. Does not matter where I try to move it, the AdminCP does not show the new location, even despite moving the...

[UKCobra]

I have the Custom Avatars go missing after my upgrade to 5.6.2 PL1

When I check the Admin Console, they are stored : Avatars are currently being served from the filesystem at ./customav...

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My site was also impacted again before there was any communication from vBulletin. I was a 5.6.1 and now fully uptodate. Is there anyway to get a better and earlier notification system in place, even...

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Hi Mark,
Picking this up again for the next upgrade. I have been unpgrading VB since 2002, so I am a little confused why there are files that need to be deleted, I have never seen this before....

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The Captcha key has not been touched, and by switching off the use of it on the Search function, it then triggers the Criteria is not restrictive enough when clicking on new Posts.
My suspicion...

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I have not made any changes to the site for around 4 weeks, but today i have had reports of reCaptcha 2.0 not working.
Users are getting an error that says Image verification unsuccessful due to...

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The forum update went smoothly this morning, I have attached the screen shots of the 'different' screens I saw this time, which is the first upgrade since the Zero Day patching that I did in 2019....

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Thanks Mark for the update.

I will download the files again, I am pretty sure I took the normal upgrade files, and that would explain why it gave me the option of starting from, 5.5.0....

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We had to clear some table caches to get the site operational.
Will attempt the upgrade again tomorrow morning. As I am on a Security Patch release, should I do something different ?
As I...

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I attempted to upgrade to 5.6.1 this morning, from the 5.5.5 Security Patch following the Zero Day vulnerability a few months back.
It has not gone well, and I had to restore from backups and still...

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It was performed via Firefox. As confirmed by my hosting company.
The last upgrade was the 5.5.2 Security Patch, which was a copy of the files and no activity from the Browser.
If I recall...

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Hi Wayne,

I have not changed anything related to XML and the System Requirements look OK.
What I uncovered early Sunday morning, was that the Hosting Company was able to complete the...

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It failed again this morning, going from VB 5.5.2 PL2 to VB 5.5.3 PL2, and it is failing at the same stage (Step 2 - XML).

Restoring from backup again. Any idea why this is happening ?...

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The Settings.

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Spent a little time this morning trying to upgrade to 5.5.4 PL2.
Got the following error at stage 2 of 5.5.2 where it does :

Status: Processing XML, Step 2 of 22

I get...

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Given all the stories of how people have been affected differently, I imagine there are different groups of people trying this exploit. Some looking for financial payback, some are just looking for creating...

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I am getting this error when trying to activate the TapaTalk service :

We are not able to verify the status of the Tapatalk plugin on your site via (https://www.[REMOVED]/forums/mobiquo/mobiquo.php)....

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This is the error I am getting :


Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 75497472 bytes) in /home/mocgb10/public_html/forums/core/vb/cache...