Title: CSV export issue
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# CSV export issue

 *  [OMP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spiderdudececil/)
 * (@spiderdudececil)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-export-issue/)
 * I love the idea of this plugin, and it’s been great not having to log into phpmyadmin.
   
   While trying out the CSV export function, I encountered the follow message:
 * >  Unable to create temporary export file:
   >  /tmp/tabulate_56f2c42446b46.csv
   > Debug info:
   > Error was: Access denied for user ‘db_user’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
 * I saw an earlier posting that mentioned a similar problem among other, but it
   wasn’t clear if this issue was addressed in any way. Hoping there’s a simple/
   quick fix for it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tabulate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tabulate/)

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 *  Plugin Author [samwilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samwilson/)
 * (@samwilson)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-export-issue/#post-7201281)
 * I’m sorry for your troubles! Thanks for your nice words about Tabulate.
 * I think your issue is a common one, and hopefully quite easy to fix; there’s 
   an item in [the FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tabulate/faq/) about it.
 * The thing is, your database user needs to have the [FILE privilege](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/privileges-provided.html#priv_file)
   in order for the temporary CSV file to be written to the server before you can
   download it.
 * So something like `GRANT FILE ON *.* to db_user@localhost` should fix it.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-export-issue/#post-7201281)
 * Status: not resolved