Subj : Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
To : Hm Derdoc
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 09:47 pm
Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:30 pm
> Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
> By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Wed Oct 22 2025 09:22 pm
>
> > I don't recall avatars.js being designed to run via jsexec. Although it
> > might, that's not really the intention - you run it as a timed event. If
> > you want to force the timed event to run on demand or modify the
> > command-line that runs as an event, you can do that too.
>
> I see from the wiki that indeed avatars.js was designed to run some commands
> via jsexec. I'll see if I can reproduce the errors you're reporting.
So I downloaded all the syncdat messages on VERT in QWK packet and imported into a new install of SBBS and then run 'jsexec avatars import':
...
Importing msg #5112 from Karloch: parsed 8 avatarssuccess
Importing msg #5113 from Jason: parsed 4 avatarssuccess
Importing msg #5114 from StingRay: parsed 16 avatarssuccess
Importing msg #5115 from Luis Silva: parsed 3 avatarssuccess
new import_ptr = 5115
Imported 3384 messages
/sbbs/exec/avatars.js executed in 13.70 seconds
This imported custom user avatars:
ll ~/sbbs/data/qnet/
total 800
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 957 Oct 22 21:38 AEFINITY.avatars.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 498 Oct 22 21:39 ALCABBS.avatars.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 584 Oct 22 21:38 ALCATRAZ.avatars.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 584 Oct 22 21:38 ALT119.avatars.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 516 Oct 22 21:38 ALTERANT.avatars.ini
... and shared avatar collections:
sbbs3$ ll ../../text/avatars/
total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 6758 Feb 2 2023 corporate.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 3729 Feb 2 2023 danger.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2526 Feb 2 2023 DIGDIST.startrek.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 1422 Feb 2 2023 ECBBS.animals.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2526 Feb 2 2023 ECBBS.emoji.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2158 Feb 2 2023 ECBBS.gaming.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2289 Feb 2 2023 GUARDIAN.profile.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 3446 Feb 2 2023 musical.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2755 Feb 2 2023 README.TXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 1569 Feb 2 2023 silhouettes.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 4550 Feb 2 2023 starwars.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 2769 Oct 22 21:38 VERT.misc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rswindell rswindell 1974 Oct 22 21:38 VERT.zeus_ii.bin
With no errors. Seemed to work as expected (other than the rather unfortunate console/log output).
Maybe take a look at the messages in your SYNCDATA echo and see what's up with them? In sure you downloaded them (in QWK packets) using a QWKnet account (not a normal user account) as well.
--
digital man (rob)
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