I have read all relevant threads. I have now tried this on two different servers. I am running Drupal 5.5 I install the imagecache module and make some rule sets. I noticed that I was not able to affect the images so I looked in my directories. One site is on hostgator, and following an earlier support request for Imagecace I deleted the .htaccess file that exists in the file folder. This did not fix it. I then loaded Drupal on a Dreamhost account and the same thing , nothing. no directory and no files resized. I am obviously missing something here. I was wondering if anyone had any sort of clue what could be going on