Title: automatic update step 2 failed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# automatic update step 2 failed

 *  [suzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzy/)
 * (@suzy)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/)
 * I have the automatic update plugin and was able to upgrade my installation on
   two of my three blogs with no problem. When I use the update feature on third
   blog I get the error automatic update step 2 failed. Has this happened to anyone
   else?

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 *  [Sridhar Katakam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikat/)
 * (@srikat)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/#post-691899)
 * Are you talking about upgrading from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3?
 *  Thread Starter [suzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzy/)
 * (@suzy)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/#post-691902)
 * Yes I am.
 *  [Sridhar Katakam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikat/)
 * (@srikat)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/#post-691911)
 * I don’t know about that plugin. I upgraded simply using a FTP client. You just
   have to overwrite 5 files.
 * [http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/02/05/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-from-232-to-233-video/](http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/02/05/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-from-232-to-233-video/)
 *  Thread Starter [suzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzy/)
 * (@suzy)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/#post-691914)
 * I finally had to just FTP the files to my site. I could not figure why the automatic
   update did not work. Now I cannot access the domain. I can login to the admin
   area but unable to view my domain itself.

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 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [suzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzy/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-step-2-failed/#post-691914)
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