revdorothyl: What Else Are We Gonna Do? (Hellbound)
revdorothyl ([personal profile] revdorothyl) wrote2010-04-12 03:10 pm

The case of the lost icon

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.

[identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com 2010-04-13 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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!