WP wants to create upload folder that already exists – now what?

  • Resolved Rosemary Senjem

    (@rosemarydesigns)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Situation:

    • New install of 2.7 on new bluehost.com account with SimpleScripts
    • imported WP from version 2.7 on development server, where everything worked (including images for January 09, which generated this directory: /wp-content/uploads/2009/01)
    • permissions set to: 777
    • /wp-content/
    • /wp-content/uploads/
    • /wp-content/uploads/2009/
    • /wp-content/uploads/2009/01
    • Editing Draft blog entry
    • Try to upload image of a reasonable size (not too big)
    • get this same error message with browser uploader and flash uploader:
      Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2009/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I found the thread in this forum about upload issues and took these actions:

    • deleted wp-admin folder and wp-includes folder from server in case SimpleScripts got it messed up
    • downloaded fresh version of WP 2.7 and uploaded fresh files of wp-admin and wp-includes

    I closed the browser, cleared the cache, logged out and logged back in.

    Problem still exists.

    Any Clues?

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