Subj : Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
To   : Hm Derdoc
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 21:22:17

  Re: Shared avatar issues - corrupted JSON data in SYNCDATA sub?
  By: Hm Derdoc to All on Wed Oct 22 2025 11:11 am

 > Despite the fact that my AVAT-IN event seems to fire without warning,

AVAT-IN is a timed event, so it'll "fire" (executed) based on its configured interval.

 > I have
 > yet to have received any avatars via the sharing feature.  It's possible
 > that based on the data I have in my SYNCDATA sub that might be expected
 > behavior, but that is to also say I have around 2900 messages in that sub
 > but nearly 2000 messages in a row spit out parse errors on JSON data.
 > That's TLDR ahead of time.
 >
 > I am running this command to rescan the message base for avatars:
 >
 > `./jsexec avatars.js import=DOVE-SYNCDATA -ptr=0 -all`

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.

That may or may not have anything to do with the errors you're seeing, I'm not sure.
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