Upgrade Problems

Try manually creating the directory it’s looking for here:

/home/julianab/public_html/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-3.tmp/wordpress/wp-includes

In other words, create a folder called “upgrade” within wp-content, and then the other three folders within that. Be sure to name them exactly as above.

Give the automatic upgrade another try after that. If it keeps trying to create directories in “upgrade” and is unable to, try creating the “upgrade” directory manually, and setting its permissions to something like 766 or 777 temporarily. If you are not comfortable doing any of this yourself, you may want to have someone do a manual update for you.

Good luck!

Thanks for getting back to me! I tried making those folders, and it didn’t work. It deletes them as soon as I try the upgrade. Sigh. I think I will have to find someone to do the manual upgrade for me, since I really have no idea how to. But thanks so much!

It’s my experience that creating the folders manually rarely (if ever) works. This is probably a folder permissions or ownership issue. Delete the manually created folders and then try changing the permissions on the wp-content directory to 766. If you still have problems, try 767, 775 or 777. Once your uploads are working, change the permissions on wp-content back to 755 again and check that everything still works OK.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_File_Permissions

If you’re still having problems, contact your hosts and ask them to look into a possible folder ownership issue.

It’s my experience that creating the folders manually rarely (if ever) works.

Good to know, I have never actually tried it. ??

Sorry, how do I change the permissions? From the wp-content, which folder do I choose: gallery, plugins, themes, uploads?

how do I change the permissions?

See the link I gave above. You need to try changing permissions on the wp-content folder itself.

Tried changing the permissions to all those numbers, still didn’t work. I’ll contact my host. Thanks!