Icons...

[rian_aphasia]

So when I first created my Dreamwidth account, I uploaded 6 icons, which I was planning to use here. Then, when I imported my lj to my Dreamwidth account, it brought my other 9 icons over too. I knew that 9 of my icons were going to be put down as Inactive, but had no clue which ones; I assumed it would be the ones that were imported.

Turns out, only one of my icons, my default, is one I'd put up here to use on a regular basis; the other 5 are very old. Is there a way to change my Inactive ones? I know the ability to do it multiple times would just give us a regular way to cheat the 6 icon rule, I'm not saying I want that. What I mean is a one-time thing to "fix" which icons we now have access to without deleting them completely. Because I'd prefer my old icons to actually show up on my old (ancient) posts and not change over to my default.

Comments

[red_trillium]

Hmmmm....not sure in this case because it sounds like you are doing things right. I did poke around in the bugzilla thingie (don't ask me what exactly it is but I know it's the open problems) and there is an open bug that sounds like the problem you are having with the ones outside the 100X100 side. threaded description from people here

A few thoughts/suggestions, take them or leave them.

- I copied a few of your LJ userpicts and was able to upload them to my DW (I've deleted them, don't worry!). If you are having problems uploading your originals, what about saving (right click on PC, not sure Mac?) the icons from your LJ to your desktop and upload to DW from those?

-It is possible to import your journal from LJ and your icons come over, but if you don't want to import your whole journal that's probably not ideal.

-Last thought is post a new question here in Getting Started explaining your problems and see if anyone else has other ideas or can help or log it in DW support page. I do notice there is something in there about "The userpic factory is currently not working. This means that if you upload an icon that doesn't meet our technical guidelines (up to 100x100 pixels, 40kb or smaller) you will receive an error message, rather than being asked to resize your icon. We'll be fixing this as soon as possible." (When I was testing for yours I tried to upload something outside 100x100 I found the same problem but yours might be different if you are also having problems for this size).

Sorry I couldn't actually help with anything. I hope you get it resolved.

[barondave]

Well, I succeeded the long way around: I right-clicked (yes, that works on a Mac) an LJ userpic to a new tab, copied the url and uploaded the picture via the url field.

That's a kludge, but I have 200 userpic slots, not that I'm going to fill them all, and don't want to limit myself to only LJ userpics. At some point, LJ and DW must diverge or else I'll only use LJ. DW has to work before I take it seriously.

[keptwench]

DW *is* in beta. Give 'em time.