Title: Error Uploading Media =(
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error Uploading Media =(

 *  [dbogomolny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbogomolny/)
 * (@dbogomolny)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/)
 * **I get an error whenever I try to upload photos. I used to upload photos to 
   my blog regularly last year w/o any problems… this is the message that I get 
   when I try uploading:**
 * > “food.JPG” has failed to upload due to an error
   >  Unable to create directory/
   > home/.janeane/theseandthose/site_v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/10. Is its parent
   > directory writable by the server?

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 *  [ChaunD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaund/)
 * (@chaund)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1704869)
 * It’s a permissions problem. Check the parent directory (wp-content) to make sure
   that permissions are set so that you can ‘Write’ to it. (ie rwxrw-rw)
 *  Thread Starter [dbogomolny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbogomolny/)
 * (@dbogomolny)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1704870)
 * thanks! could you please explain how to do this?
 *  [ChaunD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaund/)
 * (@chaund)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1704878)
 * You will need to FTP into where you keep your wordpress files. Go to the wp-content
   directory and right-click. At the bottom you will see File Permissions…, open
   and make sure that all the Write attributes are checked off for Owner and Group.
 *  [ripbang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripbang/)
 * (@ripbang)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1705536)
 * I am having the same issue, when trying upload media I get the message:
 * “DDsketch2.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
    The uploaded file could
   not be moved to /home/doctordreadsjerk.com/website/wordpress/wp-content/uploads.
 * I checked the permissions and they are all selected and set to 777. Appreciate
   any help.
 *  [ripbang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripbang/)
 * (@ripbang)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1705537)
 * I can’t even upload a masthead.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1705538)
 * [@ripbang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripbang/)
    Start a new thread.
   What is a masthead? Read this [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome)

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-uploading-media/#post-1705538)
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