Failed to create temp dir

I’m having the same problem and found this post.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-smushit-smushit-error-failed-to-create-a-temp-dir

I added the suggested code…

/**
* Constants
*/

define(‘SMUSHIT_REQ_URL’, ‘http://ws1.adq.ac4.yahoo.com/ysmush.it/ws.php?img=%s’);

define(‘SMUSHIT_BASE_URL’, ”);

and it solved the “temp dir” problem. But now I’m getting a 1 mb file limit error. I found another post that said Smush.it has a 1mb limit on the files it can work with. My files are larger than 1 mb, so I’ll have to look for another plugin to optimize images.

Steve

Excellent, this is great. I added that extra code and it worked! Thanks steve. Before this plugin, I would already have saved for web from photoshop to reduce the MBs if that helps steve. Thanks again.

Alex, I just upgraded all my websites this morning to 1.4.1, and I’m getting this message now for all of them. I can’t use your plugin right now. I went into wp-smushit.php inside your plugin folder, and changed the constants as per above, and still nothing is working.

Will you have another update soon?

I have this message for example :
Smush.it error: Failed to create a temp dir while processing http://*****.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/G5090711.gif (/homez.380/xxxxxx/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/G5090711.gif).

WordPress version : 3.2.1
Smush.it : 1.4.1

Exact same issue as itoben.

However in my case, i only get this message when trying to re-smush, or manually using the smush.it button in media library.

Smushing works fine, when uploading the image manually, and the image uploads fine, and when i checked the media library, it also indicated i made some file size savings, hence why i know smush it works.

Sadly i just wish clicking the smush it works as well, so i could smush my old uploaded images that haven’t been smushes just yet.

Bulk smushing apparently works, but after 1 dozen images, it then gets the temp dir error again, and also this operation time out.

Processing rafa-nadal-vs-novak-djokovic…
– Reduced by 8.7% (870 B)
– Reduced by 7.8% (1.6 KB)

Processing wimbledon-2011…
– Reduced by 5.4% (418 B)
– Reduced by 4.9% (844 B)
– Reduced by 4.9% (7.2 KB)
– Reduced by 5.0% (1.7 KB)
– Reduced by 4.5% (1.7 KB)

Processing 403…
– Reduced by 7.5% (690 B)
– Reduced by 7.4% (1.5 KB)
– Reduced by 6.5% (1.4 KB)
– Reduced by 6.7% (1.3 KB)

Processing sc2…
– Reduced by 6.7% (637 B)
– Reduced by 6.5% (1.3 KB)
– Reduced by 5.0% (6.7 KB)
– Reduced by 5.5% (1.9 KB)
– Reduced by 4.6% (1.8 KB)

Processing debug-bar-errors1…
– Reduced by 13.1% (1.6 KB)
– Reduced by 10.0% (1.2 KB)

Processing debug-bar-sql1…
– Reduced by 10.6% (1.4 KB)
– Reduced by 9.0% (1.6 KB)

Processing debug-bar-profiler1…
– Reduced by 12.8% (1.1 KB)
– Reduced by 10.2% (826 B)

Processing debug-bar-globals1…
– Reduced by 8.1% (573 B)
– Reduced by 9.2% (1.6 KB)
– Reduced by 11.0% (2.9 KB)
– Reduced by 11.1% (2.9 KB)

Processing debug-bar-black1…
– Reduced by 14.7% (418 B)
– Reduced by 11.2% (399 B)

Processing hard-drive-labeled…
– Reduced by 8.2% (826 B)
– Reduced by 7.3% (1.4 KB)
– Reduced by 7.6% (2.1 KB)
– Reduced by 7.5% (1.9 KB)

Processing header-zbench…
Operation timed out after 25001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

From the log, apparently the bulk smushing is also smushing the different image sizes for the single image, which is nice.

I just wish the yahoo smush service wasn’t so wonky.

But i think individual image uploads/smushing shouldn’t be a problem.

itoben, some of my images also have no savings. While some do.

I’m not too surprised because some of these images i grabbed off google, so maybe someone else had already smushed it first.

Take my word for it, the smushing works :}

The only sad bit is, smushing doesn’t work for 1mb + file size :{ but at least it gives you a warning message if this is the case, so you know which images to single out.