Title: Fail updating the plugin
Last modified: May 4, 2017

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# Fail updating the plugin

 *  [islandbrazil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/islandbrazil/)
 * (@islandbrazil)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-updating-the-plugin/)
 * hi, the message is saying that I can’t update because of permissions. “It is 
   due to inconsistent file permissions.”
    What should I do? Some people said to
   write in wp-config.php the lines: define(‘FS_CHMOD_FILE’, 644); define(‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’,
   755);
 * But it did not work properly.
 * What should I do next??
    Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [fail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fail/)
 * [permission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permission/)
 * [update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update/)
 * [updating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updating/)

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 * Last reply from: [islandbrazil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/islandbrazil/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-updating-the-plugin/)
 * Status: not resolved