Title: could not create directory
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# could not create directory

 *  Resolved [Axayna402840](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axayna402840/)
 * (@axayna402840)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-22/)
 * Hi, so I’m getting an error message when I try an install plugins to my wordpress
   site. I’m working on the site through the dashboard and am hosted by godaddy.
 * This is the error I’m getting.
 * Downloading install package from [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/profile-builder.2.2.1.zip…](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/profile-builder.2.2.1.zip…)
 * Unpacking the package…
 * Could not create directory.
 * Return to Plugin Installer
 * I’ve read through other thread and I’ve tried adding this to my
    wp-config.php
 * define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);
 * I’ve also tried to deactivate all my plugins and reload the dashboard. Neither
   of these have worked. I haven’t tried to changed the recursive permission # because
   of the security issues that were noted.
 * I’m relatively new to wordpress so detailed answers would be super appreciated.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Axayna402840](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axayna402840/)
 * (@axayna402840)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-22/#post-6413789)
 * Also I was just to reinstall the profile builder plugin. (I had deleted it because
   I was getting a server error when I tried to make a to the email message via 
   the plugins code.) So its not an issue of not having the permission to run this
   specific plugin.
 *  [ecold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecold/)
 * (@ecold)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-22/#post-6414037)
 * I am starting to have this issue with every plugin or theme. I manually upgraded
   a couple today but renaming the install folder and unzipping to the plugins directory
   but now some theme updates are showing similar. I used bitnami to install the
   stack on a Windows 2012 R2 box.
 * I have four just like the one below.
 * An error occurred while updating Auberge: Could not create directory. C:/Bitnami/
   wordpress/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/auberge/
    I am not yet on 4.3
   yet after 4.1 or whatever version it was broke my site. I started over at the
   latest version but disable autoupgrade.
 * Any ideas?
 *  [ecold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecold/)
 * (@ecold)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-22/#post-6414038)
 * Why does this show resolved now? No one has posted but me and I didn’t resolve
   it.

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 * Last reply from: [ecold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecold/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-22/#post-6414038)
 * Status: resolved

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