XF 1.4 Smiles Import from a directory on your server

[New Joe]

I want to import smiles from a folder on my server called:
smiles
So i go to Smiles in the admin cp, and go to this part:
Import from a directory on your server
As I am doing this on my test site folder i use this path:
testsite/smiles

But each time it throws an error:

Error
The specified directory was not found or unreadable.



The Directory is writable so that's not the problem, so I am lost with what to do.

 

[Martok]

Is the directory path correct? It should be relative to where you have installed XenForo. So if your site is installed in the root (or even a directory) and you have the smiles folder in the same location, the path would be

smiles

I note that you have put "smiles" not "smilies". That's fine as long as that's your folder name and you haven't mistyped it.

 

[New Joe]

Sorted it, for some reason the smiles permissions were 640 not 644, everything ok now.

 

[snoopy5]

I have the exact same problem. Xenforo 1.5.21.

I changed the permissions already from 644 to 755 and even to 777. No matter what I do and where i put the folder with the new smilies in, always the same error. What could be the reason for this?

Is there another was to add only a few smilies without beeing forced to rename all old ones too?

 

[snoopy5]

update:

problem solved. I made the mistake that I had a slash at the beginning of the path.

/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/newsmilies

instead of

styles/default/xenforo/smilies/newsmilies