Title: "Could not create directory" – error while upgrading
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# "Could not create directory" – error while upgrading

 *  [lumpyhigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumpyhigh/)
 * (@lumpyhigh)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-error-while-upgrading/)
 * **Hello. Whenever I try to upgrade my plugins or the WP version I get Could not
   create directory.: /public_html at the step “unpacking upgrade”.**
 * How to solve this ?

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 *  [CSD-Images](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csd-images/)
 * (@csd-images)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-error-while-upgrading/#post-1809797)
 * It’s a permissions issue. It’s quicker and less painless to got through a FTP
   client and upload the files.
 * With plug-ins remember to deactivate first, otherwise you might end up with corrupt
   files and/or uploads failures.
 * I’ve seen this fault on several hosts and it can be for a multitude of reasons.
   Whatever you do don’t open a directory as 777 as that’s insecure.
 *  Thread Starter [lumpyhigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumpyhigh/)
 * (@lumpyhigh)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-error-while-upgrading/#post-1810118)
 * Yes, but I have a lot of plugins that need to be updated, so it would take less
   time using the automatic upgrade feature.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-create-directory-error-while-upgrading/#post-1810118)
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