# Users' avatars disappeared

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-avatars-disappeared/159771
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 4, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-avatars-disappeared/159771 "2020-08-04T11:16:46Z")
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### Author: ![IAmGav](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamgav/32/235598_2.png) [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-avatars-disappeared/159771/2 "2020-08-04T11:36:13Z")

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User profile pictures gets pulled from Gavatar if they have a gravatar account. I am not sure how often this pull happens, but there is a way to force download them

If you must, update it for everyone you can run:

```plaintext
./launcher enter app
rails r 'UserAvatar.find_each {|u| print "."; u.update_gravatar!}'

```

It will take a while to run

reference: [Automatic updates of Gravatar avatars? - #7 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-updates-of-gravatar-avatars/151370/7)

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