Steven Zahm@ northriskpartners
Connections has a security check in place to check if the image is within the local uploads path because it manipulates images on demand. The local file path check is to help ensure that third party (malicia threats) can not use the image processing code to inject “bad stuff” into the site.
I can only assume the path in the screenshot is actually correct for your site’s content in the S3 bucket. Is it?
Probably the easiest solution… does the plug you are using to add S3 support only exclusions. If it does, I would suggest excluding the connections-images folder.
The only other solution I can think will only work if the other plugin author would be will to add support specifically for Connections.
Or perhaps, maybe it might be possible to add a “shim” to Connections to work with the S3 plugin you are using. Which is?
Hope this helps!