Title: Cannot update to 4.0.1
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cannot update to 4.0.1

 *  [hypnostage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hypnostage/)
 * (@hypnostage)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-to-401/)
 * When I click in “UPDATE NOW” I receive this:
 * Downloading update from [https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.0.1-partial-0.zip…](https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.0.1-partial-0.zip…)
 * Unpacking the update…
 * Could not create directory.
 * Installation Failed
 * I have never had a problem before, do I try the manual update? what now?
    Thanks

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-to-401/#post-5511589)
 * That is likely what I would do:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-to-401-brought-down-site?replies=4#post-6255191](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-to-401-brought-down-site?replies=4#post-6255191)
 * You want to keep your wp-content folder intact and unchanged, and you also want
   to keep your wp-config.php file and any .htaccess file you might have in your“
   root” folder just as they are. The wp-admin and wp-includes folders get deleted,
   then replaced — do not merely over-write — and the same for the remainder of 
   the wp-whatever files other than wp-config.php.

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## Tags

 * [Update Failed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-failed/)
 * [update wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-wordpress/)

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 * Last reply from: [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-to-401/#post-5511589)
 * Status: not resolved

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