Title: Another Media Upload problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Another Media Upload problem

 *  [rockshoreidyll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedrawlyn/)
 * (@thedrawlyn)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-media-upload-problem/)
 * I am having the “media upload” problem reported in other threads on this forum.
   I have tried the suggestions:
    * chmod -R 777 wp-content/uploads/2011/05 * Create
   a new (chmod 777) upload dir and point the Media at it. * Try turning on or off
   the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders” option * Disable
   plugins. * Turned them all off, except the qTranslate one as I’m concerned I’ll
   have problems getting it re-enabled.
 * Observations:
    The flash uploader shows the upload progress bar, and gets to “
   crunching…”, and then gives this error: “8-MH.jpg” has failed to upload due to
   an error File upload stopped by extension.
 * Where the HTML uploader goes back to the media library and shows this message:“
   Error saving media attachment.”
 * There’s nothing in the apache error log about this.
 * I found that the default wp-content/uploads/<year>/<month> directories are actually
   mode 755, and when I changed them to 777, they revert to 755. I suspect this 
   is a security feature of my web hosting provider, but I’m not sure.
 * As I mentioned, I created a separate media folder, outside the wp-content tree
   and ensured it is 777.
 * When I tried to upload to this new folder, I got the same errors noted above,
   but I noticed that the <year> and <month> sub-folders were created. This tells
   me that WP can write to those folders, which is good.
 * However it can’t seem to save the uploaded file.
 * Does anyone have any suggestions?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-media-upload-problem/#post-2091417)
 * > File upload stopped by extension.
 * This suggests that the upload is being stopped at the server level. Have you 
   asked your hosts about this?
 *  Thread Starter [rockshoreidyll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedrawlyn/)
 * (@thedrawlyn)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-media-upload-problem/#post-2091606)
 * It could be, but Apache is showing no errors in the log and PHP is at the recommended
   settings.
 * I’ve tried uploading using another pc with the same results. None of my other
   instances of WP ar having this problem. Of the other four instances, two also
   use Suffusion. There is a smattering of plugins that they do not share.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [rockshoreidyll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedrawlyn/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-media-upload-problem/#post-2091606)
 * Status: not resolved

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