# S3 Errors Uploading Profile Photos

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-errors-uploading-profile-photos/203063
**Category:** General
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-errors-uploading-profile-photos/203063 "2021-09-09T10:00:40Z")
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### Author: ![bigfudge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@bigfudge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bigfudge)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-errors-uploading-profile-photos/203063/7 "2021-09-10T08:40:29Z")

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Can confirm that when I try to upload an avatar the progress bar updates, and gets to 100%, but only then says “Error: Access Denied”.

Looking in the js console, I get the error:

```plaintext
https://discourse.psy.plymouth.ac.uk/uploads.json?client_id=0a2569993a6b43d6b5f8c60fdd2c913e
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 422 ()

```

And if I follow that url:

```plaintext
{"errors":["The requested URL or resource could not be found."],"error_type":"not_found"}

```

Checking the S3 bucket, nothing has made it to the ‘Originals’ folder.

This is in contrast to the situation when I upload and image to a post: then everything works fine and the image does appear in the s3 bucket, and is thumbnailed/optimized too.

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