Subj : Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
To   : Hm Derdoc
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 21:47:02

  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.
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