Changing Owner/Group of wp-content/uploads folder.

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    10 years, 6 months ago

    Don’t know if anyone’s seen this before, but I’ve been googling back and forth for weeks and haven’t found a similar problem or solution. Maybe you can help me out.

    A site I’m working on starting seeing excessively high physical disk usage, building an error_log in the wp-admin folder that was over 25gigs. It was because of the theme or a plugin or something (sadly I don’t have enough RAM to open the text file and need to split it up).

    I can’t upload new themes except manually through FTP (and they don’t always fully work), and can’t upload new media because the uploads folder in wp-content has a different owner/group than the rest of my files. No idea how it happened.

    I can change the permissions no problem, I just can’t figure out how to change the owner/group and have trip chmod commands in FileZilla, but might need a quick dummy explanation.

    Any advice?

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    I feel really dumb. I finally came to a solution tonight after being intermittently locked out of FTP/domain access for too many transfer attempts:

    I copied the uploads folder over to another directory, changed the name in the original, and moved the copied file into the wp-content sub directory.

    When I created the duplicate, it copied it with the correct owner/group and I was able to start using it again.

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