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1. zascar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,

   I'm having the same problem as these two posts:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/191024?replies=13
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226774?replies=4

   There is a link in the 2nd of how to fix it, is says:

   "It turns out that the fix needed is to delete the extra wp-content directories.

   rm -r /home/mydir/public_html/wp-content/wp-content

   works quite nicely. After deleting this directory, rerun the auto upgrade and it should complete successfully."

   But I do not know what he means by "rm -r /home......."
   Is this s php thing or something? How do I do it?
   Thanks

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That rm -r... is only if you have shell access to your host and in most cases host's don't provide that ability.

   If you need to remove a folder use FTP. Filezilla FTP makes it very easy to do something like that.

3. curious99
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   .I have the same problem.

   My additional problem are permissions. The files are owned by nobody, and neither my ftp nor my telnet can change these files (any advice for that situation?)

   I really need to run the upgrade via the normal upgrade via wordpress.

   2 additional questions on that
   1) I want to use Secure FTP but it does not work (filezilla works all right with secure ftp)

   2) I want to understand how these upgrades via wordpress work. They actually download onto my home computer and then transfer onto my server? It would be MUCH faster and MUCH more efficient if everything got downloaded directly onto the server

   3) who owns the files upgraded by wordpress? the web server? or the ftp login (if that owns it, that would explain why nothing can be deleted as in my case the files are owned by nobody, the apache webserver)

   Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-tags.1.7.4.4.zip.

   Unpacking the update.

   Installing the latest version.

   Removing the old version of the plugin.

   Could not remove the old plugin.

   Plugin upgrade Failed.

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