Title: Adding Media – delivers a 'Missing a temporary folder'
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Media – delivers a 'Missing a temporary folder'

 *  [digi-escape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digi-escape/)
 * (@digi-escape)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-media-delivers-a-missing-a-temporary-folder/)
 * I have installed WordPress 3.0 via Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 
   on a Vista 64 bit OS laptop.
 * And have upgraded to 3.01
 * Everything works fine, except images, I cannot add images to any Posts or Pages,
   by any means, except by using a full image URL.
 * I tried to add or upload image using ‘Add media files from your computer’ and
   receive a message:
    ‘Missing a temporary folder.’
 * Adding images to any slide show application delivers the same message.
 * Any suggestions as a solution. Thank you.

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 *  [dgilmour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgilmour/)
 * (@dgilmour)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-media-delivers-a-missing-a-temporary-folder/#post-1646675)
 * Did any of these help? [http://wordpress.org/search/Missing+a+temporary+folder?forums=1](http://wordpress.org/search/Missing+a+temporary+folder?forums=1)
 *  Thread Starter [digi-escape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digi-escape/)
 * (@digi-escape)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-media-delivers-a-missing-a-temporary-folder/#post-1646811)
 * Yes, I have tired almost all the suggestions from that series of forum topics,
   and any other thread related to my situation, however no solutions.
 * It must be a PHP issue in regards to the php.ini file
    I did a test to see what
   temp folder for uploads being used and it C:\Windows\Temp, so I placed in the
   following line in php.ini upload_tmp_dir = “C:\Windows\Temp”
 * Ot it could be a database problem….or…very, very little help topics in regards
   to installing WordPress on a local Windows box.
 * However, nothing changes.
 * Any suggestions? Running out of troubleshooting avenues…
 *  [dcoole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcoole/)
 * (@dcoole)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-media-delivers-a-missing-a-temporary-folder/#post-1646813)
 * I am having a similar problem – I go to upload an image and it asks – do you 
   want to try again and it never allows me to upload image. I dont have this problem
   on every wordpress site – is there a setting or something to resolve this issue??
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-media-delivers-a-missing-a-temporary-folder/#post-1646814)
 * Chill a bit, eh, dcoole? 🙂 Four posts about this in the same couple minutes 
   is a bit much.
 * You made your own topic – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-will-not-upload-5?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-will-not-upload-5?replies=2)
   Let’s use that.
 * (For the rest, I don’t know about Windows, sorry :/ )

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