Title: Failed to Update
Last modified: January 25, 2017

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# Failed to Update

 *  [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/)
 * (@multimastery)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-update-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I am trying to update to the lastest version but keep getting the following failure
   message. I haven’t seen this message ever when updating before. Any help would
   be appreciated, thanks!
 * “Update Failed: The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy
   some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.”
 * _[ [No bumping please](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping). ]_

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 * Last reply from: [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-update-2/)
 * Status: not resolved