Hi
That is usually dependent on the permissions your server is configured with. Ask your webhost for the answer to your question.
Hello,
Okay what I did with one of the blogs is uninstall / delete it altogether and then reinstall it through its admin cp of the website.
I was told to do this by the host as some data must have been lost when transferring hosts.
However, my main blog is full of links, posts etc., so I’m scared to remove it then reinstall it.
What should I do?
Make sure you do a full database backup on phpmyadmin, and download that backup to your computer as a file. You also want to backup ideally your entire WP root folder and all the folders below it, but at the very least the complete wp-content folder tree.
With those two things even if something goes wrong, you will be able to get your site back (with some amount of work).
I kind of doubt your FTP file permission issues have anything to do with good or bad data in your database and WP files. That is generally a server configuration issue.
You might experiment with this new install you did of the old blog now a new blog. Put some plugins in and try to update them and see if you are still being asked for your password. If so, reinstalling the good blog is unlikely to change that issue.
The article I linked to describes a way you can add your password into the wp-config.php file, and allow WP to read it from there instead of asking you to enter it every time. There are some security considerations to consider, discussed in the article also.
Okay, I will do a full backup and then see how it goes, thanks.
