Are there any known issues with SkypeWeb and "protect the picture" for custom set avatars? No matter what i try, i cannot seem to set the avatar for one of my skype contacts. It always reverts back to a blank avatar. Not even the default blue and white avatar, a blank one. I even went as far as to go into the database editor and copy the "Contact Photo" section of another contact directly into my problem contact. And as long as i stay offline the picture will remain. But as soon as i login, it reverts back to a blank avatar.
Things i have tried:
- Set the avatar through the User Details options menu.
- Set the avatar by right clicking the message container. (Which does not normally display until after setting it first)
- Tried different picture formats. / Tried picture of known contact that works.
- Deleted database folder for ContactPhoto.
- Copied database settings from contact that works.
- Manually entered settings into the database.
- Manually changed / copied settings while offline and while online.
- Deleted automatically downloaded avatar from the AvatarCache / Skype directory incase it was corrupted.
- Replaced automatic picture with a read-only copy of a known-working avatar in the Skype avatar folder.
- Aggressively scanned database for corruption.
No matter what i try to do, whenever i log in (and sometimes just after a certain period of time passes) the database entries inside the ContactPhoto folder for this contact get automatically removed and only these three fields remain: Backup, ImageHash, Locked. The update process removes the File, Rfile, and Format entries from the ContactPhoto folder in the database.
All of my other skype contacts have these entries, where as this one contact does not, and entries for it constantly get deleted (even shortly after they get created by the normal set-avatar process). This behavior does not seem to affect any of my other contacts. Does anyone have any ideas? The only thing that I have not tried is deleting the contact from my skype entirely and re-adding them. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Miranda 0.95.6.17348 (issue has existed for a couple of months now across many updates.)