I am trying to uprgade my plugins, but it is not working. It says it's downloading the update. Then it says unpacking the the update, but never goes any further. It just hangs up right there. I found a site that said to delete the upgrade directory in its entirety, so I did that, but still does the same thing. It also will not let me install any new themes. It says downloading install package, then unpacking package, but that's as far as it gets. I would appreciate any help.
Who's your web host?
If you're using a host that defaults to PHP4 (like 1&1) you might try adding this to your site's .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
I found my problem. One of my plugins must be corrupt or something. I deactivated the most recent ones that I installed and tried uprading and it worked. So I reactivated them one by one until I found the one that was causing the problem. Thanks for the help though, I appreciate it.
Thanks for posting your solution -- glad you got it sorted out. :-)