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#1 2008-10-13 20:34:27

Smarticool
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Registered: 2008-04-18
Posts: 3

GIF files will not work as icons online

When I try to change my icon/picture to a GIF file it won't show or won't move.  Even very short ones with just a few frames don't work!  I think it is having trouble converting it to the right size.  Do I have to do that?  How?  Is it the site that has the problem?  I'm just wondering.

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#2 2008-10-14 17:08:11

LSUUSA
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Registered: 2008-09-15
Posts: 100

Re: GIF files will not work as icons online

I don't have that problem


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#3 2008-10-14 20:52:32

TimeFreeze
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Registered: 2008-08-11
Posts: 500+

Re: GIF files will not work as icons online

Smarticool wrote:

When I try to change my icon/picture to a GIF file it won't show or won't move.  Even very short ones with just a few frames don't work!  I think it is having trouble converting it to the right size.  Do I have to do that?  How?  Is it the site that has the problem?  I'm just wondering.

I have that problem a lot. Ok I only figured out what the problem was recently (from an MMORPG called Imperion Online). It must be the file size. If it is something like 100kb+ it won't work. I don't know he exact limit that the file size is, but I know that 100kb won't work. If it is a very low file size, then I have no idea why that is happening.


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#4 2011-08-02 17:07:52

ledzepplen
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Registered: 2008-10-05
Posts: 39

Re: GIF files will not work as icons online

I have that problem 2 and I saw that binary tee shirt.

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#5 2011-08-02 17:09:44

Snowdrift
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Registered: 2011-06-22
Posts: 500+

Re: GIF files will not work as icons online

ledzepplen wrote:

I have that problem 2 and I saw that binary tee shirt.

This threads a little old, don't you think?

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#6 2011-08-02 17:20:30

Harakou
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Registered: 2009-10-11
Posts: 1000+

Re: GIF files will not work as icons online

Snowdrift wrote:

ledzepplen wrote:

I have that problem 2 and I saw that binary tee shirt.

This threads a little old, don't you think?

It probably would have been better to just make a new thread, but given he's having the same problem it's not the end of the world.

Like TimeFreeze said, it's probably the file size. If I remember correctly it has to be less than 90kb, so check the size of the GIF you're trying to upload by finding it in your file browser, right-clicking it and selecting 'properties.'


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