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Yellow Swordfish said
First thing is go to the forum admin > Integration > Storage Locations.
One of the folders in there is for the smileys. Note the folder location. Also check to see if it is readable and writable using the icons beside the row.
If it is not then you will need to check the permissions on the folder. if it is check inside the folder as the smileys should be in there.

Thanks.. All these folders were pointing to the old simple-forum location which I had moved out of the WP-Content folder directory. So in order to get it to work, I had to move them back. I was under the assumption that the entire content of 4.5 had to be removed from the WP folders.

I'm not quite sure why v5.1 dashboard doesn't permit me from changing the location path.  One of the options are custom folders which is in the simple-forum plugin. However, I don't want to move that back into my WP-Content Plugins folder so it doesn't conflict simple-forum with simple-press.  If that dashboard permited me to simply change the folder location path, it would be much easier.

When I moved the folders back into the WP-Content folder, the X turned to a Check mark and it worked.  So the update worked by making sure the folders were actually in the location path specified in the dashboard. What I was asking was why version 5.1 was even still pointing to the old folders to begin with.  I assumed that it would have created new folders and simply pointed to them. However, as stated above, it was still linking to the old folder paths, which obviously wasn't there because I had removed it from the WP-Content folder before I installed 5.1.