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How do I change my main Profile Picture?


To change your Profile Picture go to your private site, and click on the link that says "Public Profile"

Then if you click on the link on the left side that says "Profile Pics", you should end up here:

Here you can delete your old profile picture. To learn how to do that visit this page:

(Please note that Classic users are allowed 3 pictures, while Premium users have up to 99 profile pics.)

Now you're ready to start uploading a new picture! Click on the "Upload Profile Pics", in the left module:

Click on Browse, and select the image you'd like to upload. When you've found the image you want to upload, click "Open" and the image should be selected. Now click on "Upload Picture" on the bottom of the page... and your image should upload! If you want to add more - just do the same steps again.

After you upload multiple pictures, choose the picture you want to show up on your mainpage, blogrings, user search - make that picture the Default picture. This is the picture that will appear on your main Xanga page.

To set your default picture - go to this page: http://www.xanga.com/private/profilepics.aspx and next to the picture you want to be your Main picture - make sure Default Pic is set to "YES."

After you followed all those steps = the picture should show up. However, please note that after you follow all these steps - your old profile picture may still be there. This is called, aggressive caching. Basically its saving information to save time when you revisit your site. For more information and to fix this issue, here's a FAQ from our help page that might do the trick.

http://help.xanga.com/aggressivecache.htm

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