Images not being recognized by slider script in subdirectory site

I believe the answer is yes to both.

Just to further clarify, there is a thumb.php file within the theme files that looks to house the TimThumb script. Do you think that I need to adjust code within that file?

I would like to temporarily continue to use timthumb for now.

Your link mentions to add code to get the correct file path for the image, but would I be adding it to the thumb.php file?

oh wow, such a long thread on binarymoon! Looks like this is a major issue. So I think I understand the issue is that I need to know where the image file is actually stored since it’s in a ‘virtual’ directory. So I’m thinking that I need to change the following code (from binarymoon’s recommended code), but I’m confused about how.

$theImageSrc = ‘/blogs.dir/’ . $blog_id . ‘/files/’ . $imageParts[1];

This seems like it should work if the file is in site.com/subdirectory/files/

Would you know how I should change this line of code to get the right path? For example, this link shows the image…

http://www.lipolitics.com/huntington/files/2012/04/Huntington-Opens-Electric-Car-Charging-Station_1.jpg

…But I know that this doesn’t actually exist because it’s some kind virtual directory and I’m thinking that may be the problem. That I need to reference the real directory location of the file.

By the way, thanks so much for getting me to at least sort of start to understand the issue. It’s been driving me nuts.

Okay, so I’ve added this code to functions.php…

function get_image_path ($post_id = null) {
	if ($post_id == null) {
		global $post;
		$post_id = $post->ID;
	}
	$theImageSrc = get_post_meta($post_id, 'Image', true);
	global $blog_id;
	if (isset($blog_id) && $blog_id > 0) {
		$imageParts = explode('/files/', $theImageSrc);
		if (isset($imageParts[1])) {
			$theImageSrc = '/wp-content/blogs.dir/' . $blog_id . '/files/' . $imageParts[1];
		}
	}
	return $theImageSrc;
}

but that doesn’t seem to work. when I look at the slider, and look at the image info for the image that isn’t working, I see that the img source is:

http://www.lipolitics.com/huntington/wp-content/themes/flashnews/thumb.php?src=http://www.lipolitics.com/huntington/files/2012/04/Huntington-Opens-Electric-Car-Charging-Station_11.jpg&h=210&w=310&zc=1&q=90

Any thoughts?