# Some avatars not appearing after migration off S3
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 18, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952 "2015-05-18T15:58:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/1 "2015-05-18T15:58:59Z")
All my avatars look like this:
I am running:
What info do I need to collect to get to the problem and fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Gav
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/3 "2015-05-18T20:13:29Z")
Are there any errors in `http://your.discourse.org/logs` ?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/4 "2015-05-18T21:10:25Z")
How are you hosted ?
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/5 "2015-05-18T21:39:34Z")
Hi Both,
A tonne of errors saying it couldnt find it
So I took the bottom example, and it is on my server. @sam I am on Digital Ocean.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/6 "2015-05-18T22:28:18Z")
What did you do before it broke?
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/7 "2015-05-18T22:49:48Z")
s3 migrate is the last thing I did. I have not given the site the love and attention it has needed recently.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/8 "2015-05-19T09:07:18Z")
Migrating **from** or **to** S3?
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/9 "2015-05-19T09:32:41Z")
Away from S3, to local disk (I assume), please accept my apologies on the lack of clarity there @zogstrip.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/10 "2015-05-19T13:36:45Z")
A quick look at the “blank” avatar images reveals they are 1x1 pixel gifs…
… all the `user_avatar`’s are broken all the `letter_avatar` ones are fine.
One example:
`http://forum.ssrcg.com/user_avatar/forum.ssrcg.com/dayc/25/1185.png`
Here is the decompressed output, note the content type `image/png` for the 1x1 pixel `gif`.
Running:
`Discourse 1.3.0.beta9 - https://github.com/discourse/discourse version efb992c9d953c80cc615cd1c609fc2caf2801afc`
I love the way that delivering a 1x1 pixel gif compressed takes 95 bytes, uncompressed it’s 84 (including headers)
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/11 "2015-05-19T15:43:02Z")
Nice find, what is the answer?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/12 "2015-05-19T21:49:36Z")
It simply looks like a big pile of images are missing from the uploads dir
Don’t know why/how
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/13 "2015-05-19T21:56:39Z")
I tried to upload a new one and it didnt work..
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/14 "2015-05-19T21:58:53Z")
There is a rake task that scrubs out invalid images, how many avatars are we talking here?
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/15 "2015-05-20T08:44:02Z")
What is the rake task?
We’re a small community, and if I just take my usual cannon approach and do it they wont object.
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### Author:  [@Karneasy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karneasy)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/16 "2015-05-21T15:23:55Z")
I am still having this issue, if I copy the URL from one of the errors in /logs it shows the image.
What should I do? Can I go back to S3? If so how?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-avatars-not-appearing-after-migration-off-s3/28952/17 "2015-05-22T10:01:07Z")