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The case of the lost icon

posted by [personal profile] revdorothyl at 03:10pm on 12/04/2010
The Angel-and-Spike "What else are we gonna do?" AtS "Hellbound" icon that [livejournal.com profile] keswindhover made for my birthday in 2005 (commemorating the title of my "Slayage" conference paper presentation in 2004) is missing.

It's still listed among my choices on LJ, but the picture is missing.

Has anyone else experienced a disappearing icon picture? Or does anyone have an idea of why only this one userpic might've been altered against my wishes?

Failing that, I'll have to beg [livejournal.com profile] keswindhover and [livejournal.com profile] missmurchison to search their old computer files and see if either of them has a copy that I could re-upload (Kes made the icon, but my 'thank you' entry from January of '05 noted that Miss M had helped to downsize it a bit to fit LJ's limits).

Darn! I really liked that icon, and it's not as if I'm anywhere close to exceeding the number of userpics I'm allowed here on LJ.
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elisi: Edwin and Charles (Daleks: Explain! by dana_cz)

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posted by [personal profile] elisi at 08:27pm on 12/04/2010
It's LJ being stupid. It'll be back.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 08:31pm on 12/04/2010
Arrgh!

Well, at least that's some comfort!
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posted by [identity profile] keswindhover.livejournal.com at 07:51am on 13/04/2010
If it doesn't show up I'll just make it for you again - I'm actually a lot better at icon making now, so it will be less blurry.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 02:53pm on 13/04/2010
I finally found a copy of the original icon (I thought I'd lost it on my home computer, but apparently it survived several migrations on my work computer and was safely hidden away), but even though I can clearly see the picture in my files, when I added it to my userpics all over again with a different comment, LJ says I've successfully added it but still shows no picture.

Oh, well . . . ! At least I know it's not lost forever!
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posted by [identity profile] green-amberjade.livejournal.com at 08:54pm on 12/04/2010
I had LJ suddenly change the icon on my most recent post. One moment it was Angel puppet and the next it was my default icon. It had me convinced that someone had hacked into my account so I immediately went to change my password and make sure that nothing had been deleted.

I hope you get your icon back back.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 09:23pm on 12/04/2010
[livejournal.com profile] elisi says it's just LJ being stupid, and my icon picture will come back. I live in hope!
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posted by [identity profile] jwaneeta.livejournal.com at 09:57pm on 12/04/2010
I've had that happen a few times. I just changed my default to one that worked, and a couple days later my pic was back, and I re-defaulted. Sorry I can't be of more help.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 10:03pm on 12/04/2010
I guess I'll just have to wait and hope for the 'Second Coming of the Lost Icon' (which really sounds like something Dan Brown would try to turn into a badly written novel or an interminable movie, but never mind!).

Thanks for the reassurance. :)
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posted by [identity profile] cousinmary.livejournal.com at 02:19am on 13/04/2010
I have one (this one) that disappears on occasion, no idea why, but it comes back. *shrug* Live in hope :)
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 02:54pm on 13/04/2010
Thanks!
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posted by [identity profile] missmurchison.livejournal.com at 02:52am on 15/04/2010
It's happened to me too. Once my default icon changed to something that I'd never seen before. It came back eventually too.

I sometimes suspect LJ does this on purpose.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 03:31pm on 15/04/2010
Thanks!

I hope it comes back soon, because this is just too weird. No matter how I rename the icon picture and try to re-load it, LJ always sticks it in the same spot and shows it as a non-existent picture, even though it's a perfectly good picture in my file copy.

Arrgh!
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