Title: Image Library Problems Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Image Library Problems * Resolved [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/) * I just went through a site hosting move and I reinstalled the entire wordpress software, etc. Thought it was all fine and dandy, but I can’t get to my images now. I also can’t upload images. It seems like a database issue…but that’s the kind of problem I have no idea how to fix. Can anyone help? * There weren’t really any error messages, it just doesn’t let me get to my images. It knows there are 129, but I can’t see them to use them. The only error I got as IO error when I tried to upload a photo into the library. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 35 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385629) * Any ideas? Is there another helpful admin here who might know how to help? [http://www.etmcreative.com/blog](http://www.etmcreative.com/blog) Thanks! * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385632) * Image problems are common and it nearly always has to do with [file permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions). * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385646) * They show fine in the posts I saw. Only this one at the top of your: “About this blog” is missing: [http://www.etmcreative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/emma_blog](http://www.etmcreative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/emma_blog) The url is incomplete. Since we have february now, did you try a new post with an image in february? Is the direcory upoads/2010/02/ created? * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385767) * hmmm, I read the whole permissions post and am not sure how that would apply. I did install it myself and I only have my user as the admin. I will look into whether my user from the previous location of the blog has the permissions and my new one doesn’t…that may be it. * But to henkholland, my problem is not that they don’t show up in the blog, they all do. The problem is that I cannot add new images to new posts. And I can’t get into the library to use images loaded there in a new post. It’s when I’m in admin. * Thanks to both of you. Anyone else have some help??? It’s still not working and I want to be able to write!! * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385770) * > hmmm, I read the whole permissions post and am not sure how that would apply. > I did install it myself and I only have my user as the admin. * Ok. Your WP user is not the same as the user that uploads images. The user that uploads images is the user that the Apache web server runs as. See if [this thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/353296?replies=5) and [this one](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253778/page/2?replies=31#post-1256870) help any. * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385800) * Both of those links sounded good…but I got lost along the way in each. * I ran a phpinfo script to try to find out what permissions my server was running on, but I couldn’t find it anywhere in that long doc…I found the uploads folder in my wp-content and it has permissions set to 775, and some numbers for the owner and the group ids. I want to keep my permissions at 775 so how do I find out what those owner/group numbers should be? * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385808) * So the Flash uploader and the Browser uploader both don’t work? They just let you wait and wait without any real error message? Could be a memory problem on the new server then. * Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate: ` define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');` * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385813) * Thanks Henkholland, but that didn’t work either. But you described the problem perfectly, it just sits in the browser uploader. The flash uploader gives me a IO Error. * I added the memory definition, reactivated the cache plugin, and changed some settings that limited size of uploads…but none of those things have solved the problem. * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385814) * Set your permissions on the uploads directory to 777 _temporarily_— just long enough to test an image upload. I’ve seen server that require 777. Often the only way to fix that little security problem is to get help from your host. * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385815) * Should I try some kind of plugin, such as JR_embed or something else to make a work-around to get images in? * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385816) * Ok, apljdi, I’ll try that. Then if I can upload an image, I’ll know it’s a security problem? Then what? * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385817) * Ummm, that didn’t do anything. Ugh, I’m stuck. * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385819) * > Then if I can upload an image, I’ll know it’s a security problem? Then what? * No, if you can upload then you know its a permissions problem. ‘777’ is the security problem. Be sure to change that back. Of course this is all moot now, since it didn’t work. * Yeah, I’m stuck too. I wonder if it has something to do with the YTS server? * Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * (@ethomasmcginnis) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385820) * What’s a YTS server? * I don’t know if it’s relevant, but I have yahoo hosting. They’re not very helpful for blogging problems, because they say that they don’t support database issues. * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/#post-1385822) * > What’s a YTS server? * Yahoo! Traffic Server. Its the http server– the actual server software– that you site runs on. * I’ve never had to deal with Yahoo! about hosting issues but there are those here who claim that Yahoo! hosting is some of the worst. You might consider a new host. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 35 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Image Library Problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [-posting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posting/) * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/) * [io error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/io-error/) * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [photo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/photo/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 35 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/) * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-library-problems/page/3/#post-1385897) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics