Title: Folders not writable error message.
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Folders not writable error message.

 *  Resolved [dannymudd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannymudd/)
 * (@dannymudd)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folders-not-writable-error-message/)
 * Hello, I was trying to run a full backup of my site. And I got the following 
   message.
 * Folder “/www/MYSITEDOMAIN/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-cef3cf-temp” is not writable
   
   Folder “/www/MYSITEDOMAIN/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-cef3cf-logs” is not writable
 * also, if I open the log, I get “failed to open dir, permission denied” message.
 * Please help. Thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folders-not-writable-error-message/#post-7203286)
 * Can you check the permissions on that folders and set it so that the PHP process
   can write to this. If you can’t do it ask you hoster how to do it.

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