I have never seen this behaviour in an ordinary Elgg 1.7.1 install. Are you running the basic package or have you installed any additional plugins?
Hi Kevin, thanks for your reply.
Turns out I was missing the GD library :/
What threw me was how regular image uploads were being handled correctly
Thanks again,
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