Title: All Plugins Disappeared
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# All Plugins Disappeared

 *  [earner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earner/)
 * (@earner)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/)
 * I’ll try to be coherent.
 * I had a v2 copy of WordPress, but it is on a host that was slack with upgrading.
   So about 10 days ago I installed the automatic backup plugin and upgraded my 
   WordPress blog to a newer version. I can’t remember which version that is/was,
   but it would be 2.5/2.6.
 * Everything was fine. Then yesterday, after about 10 days of everything being 
   fine, I suddenly noticed that all the plugins were telling me they needed an 
   upgrade, a newer version was required. I clicked on a few and they all said they
   couldn’t upgrade and the error message indicated that a sub-drectory/file(s) 
   couldn’t be created.
 * So I didn’t mind and carried on populating my blog.
 * Well, tongiht I felt like tackling this. I thought if I did a CHMOD of the /plugins
   directory it would be OK. So I did this.
    CHMOD had been set to 644, so I changed
   it to 744. I went back into plugins and clicked on one to upgrade it. There was
   an error message, I clicked on “plugins” again and none were showing.
 * I changed CHMOD of /plugins back to 644. No change.
    None of the plugins show.
   I uploaded another plugin – this one does not show either.
 * Any clues?
 * 🙂

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/#post-863613)
 * Folders – chmod 755
    files inside folders – chmod 644
 * /plugins folder – chmod 755
 *  Thread Starter [earner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earner/)
 * (@earner)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/#post-863617)
 * The strange thing is, whenever I have performed a CHMOD on a directory, it changes
   everything underneath that (files and directories) to the same value.
 * So if I set folders at chmod 755, everything is 755.
    So I can’t then set the
   files to 644. I just tried.
 * I set the folder /plugins to 755
    I looked at the files and they were 755 I changed
   one file from 755 to 644, I looked again at /plugins and that was 644
 * I can never set them differently.
 *  Thread Starter [earner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earner/)
 * (@earner)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/#post-863618)
 * I just set /plugins to 755 and logged in.
    I see the plugins now, although most
   of them are advising there is a new version.
 * I decided to click to upgrade the WordPress stats and got the error message I
   was originally getting:
 * ————————————
    Downloading update from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stats.1.3.2.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stats.1.3.2.zip)
 * Unpacking the update
 * Could not create directory: /home/myname/public_html/blog/wp-content/upgrade/
   stats/stats/
 * Installation Failed
 * ———————
 * As I was feeling in a carefree mood, I next did a CHMOD on /plugins to 777 and
   tried again. Thinking a 777 would allow everything… but still getting the same
   error message that installation failed.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/#post-863628)
 * Some servers won’t allow the auto upgrade – meaning you have to do it manually.
   download/upload.
 * I’d talk to your host about the chmod issue.

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-plugins-disappeared-1/#post-863628)
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