anything in the server error log? or in forum – toolbox – error log? is the directory for the plugin actually called buddypress?
It was called buddypress. It’s gone now. I had to remove it through ftp to get my site back. Let’s give it another shot.
Installed, and called budypress. Let’s press activate… D’oh!!
Here’s what the dashboard does when I activate it – http://clip2net.com/s/5wnYgm. The forum is gone on the site, except for the header. Other pages seem fine, except my BP Activity page is almost blank now. There’s no access to anything through the dashboard. No matter which tab I select, the tab highlights, and the url changes, but the field remains blank.
After I removed it through ftp, I had this under Simple:Press Administration – “The plugin buddypress/sp-buddypress-plugin.php has been deactivated due to error: Plugin file does not exist”
Error log says nothing.
This is a multisite, so maybe that has something to do with it? Sub-directories seemed unaffected.
I wish I could help more, but it’s all over my head.
I dont understand the image… where did you install the plugin?? its a simple press plugin so it goes in the simple press plugins folder NOT the wp plugins… you would activate it from forum – plugins – plugin list… is that what you did?
if so, can you verify the entire folder exists? default location would be: wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins
see: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/plugin-basics/using-plugins/
That was kind of the point of the image. That’s what happens when I activated the plugin. What you see is what I got…
Yes, I installed it from the SP plugin installer. As soon as I activate it that’s what happens on my dashboard. everything disappears. The only way I could get back to it in order to delete is was to go through my ftp (or cpanel) and delete it from the sp plugin folder.
I installed all your plugins to give them a run earlier. And I verified that it was in the right folder before I activated it. I’ve tried both installing it through the plugin installer and using ftp. It installed fine both times. It blew up both times as soon as it was activated.
So, yeah, I get where they go. This one doesn’t “go” for me though. 
It stops… everything.
You can verify that other plugins are working fine on the site. http://allaboutchile.com/forum/
Hi Joe… the same happened for me… it was a problem with the avatars selection… please look up on this topic how i did resolve it… i think it should be a few pages earlier…
Hi Carlos,
Thanks! I asked about this earlier, but…
Mr Papa said
@joe.. avatar thing? the size one? no, that is resolved… but could be incorrect avatar priorities and settings…
Maybe it’s the same thing. I have had a couple of plugins act strange when in a multisite. Is yours a multisite too?
the reason for asking was you were on the themes panel when you said activated… was just making sure…
so if multisite, which quite a few folks use sp and multisite together, is this on the main site or a network site? keep in mind that each site is a unique site – no data shared between them…
The forum is only activated on the main site right now. It is not Network Activated.
I didn’t know how else to say “activate,” since that’s what it says in the SP plugins as well.
sorry, had to check – you would be surprised at the number that have tried to activate them as wp plugins…
so let me ask a question about wp avatars… what avatars are you using from wp??? is bp using its own avatars? or wp?
Heh, don’t ever apologize for asking me questions. I know I’m ignorant… I just am not sure how much so… As an example, I can’t recall what I set for avatars, though I think it was BP.
I’m using the MonsterID from the Settings>Discussion – Avatars selection. And I’ve selected PG.
Does that answer your question?
monster id, yes it does…
just as a test… can you switch the sp avatar priorities to be gravatars then sp default? lets get wp avatar out of the equation… might be some race condition between bp and wp… and you are first I know to pick wp avatar other than gravatar… 
Okay, I’ve uploaded it, but it’s not showing up in my forum plugins folder in my ftp client.
It is listed as a plugin in the SP dashboard though.
My concern right now is that if I activate it and the sky falls, I won’t be able to delete it.
Should I delete it from the dashboard, then reinstall it through ftp?
Yeah, that was it. I got scared…
Well, it seems to work now. It’s activated and nothing blew up this time.