Title: Media will not upload Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Media will not upload Error

 *  Resolved [Azarna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azarna/)
 * (@azarna)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-will-not-upload-error/)
 * Sorry to bother you guys but I am at my wit’s end.
 * I am not a professional web designer, just an ordinary person trying to have 
   a craft-related blog.
 * I switched themes today, to a professional one I bought.
 * Now I can not upload media. I get this message:
 * “HeaderImageIcon.png” has failed to upload due to an error
    The uploaded file
   could not be moved to D:\Hosting\9251946\html\website\blog/wp-content/uploads/
   2013/04.”
 * I have no idea what that means. I was able to upload images normally yesterday.
   i have tried going back to the original theme, but get the same error. If I try
   to upload via the other method (browser uploader?) then it says “Error saving
   media attachment.”
 * The only thing I can think of that may have changed the situation is my website
   host (GoDaddy) did some sort of update yesterday which resulted in my hosting
   having a new IP reference. Could that be relevant?
 * I also noticed that I was not able to upload/install the new theme in the usual
   way, ie just uploading the zip into WordPress, it kept failing. So I manually
   dumped the theme contents into the themes folder with Filezilla, and that seemed
   to solve the issue. Seems possible that is connected.
 * I would really appreciate any advice, preferably in very simple idiot-proof English,
   I am sadly very ignorant of all this stuff. My website is now a year old and 
   I would hate to lose all my work 🙁

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 *  Thread Starter [Azarna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azarna/)
 * (@azarna)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-will-not-upload-error/#post-3701266)
 * I saw a couple of posts on these forums that talk about setting the permissions
   of the wp-content folder to 777, or 766.
 * I found these instructions for how to do this – [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-change-file-permissions-using-filezilla-on-.html](http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-change-file-permissions-using-filezilla-on-.html)
 * I follow these, and set the folder permissions to 777
 * Filezilla gives a message of –
    Command: SITE CHMOD 777 wp-content Response: 
   500 ‘SITE CHMOD 777 wp-content’: command not understood
 * Does that mean I am doing something wrong? Surely even I can type a number in
   a box 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [Azarna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azarna/)
 * (@azarna)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-will-not-upload-error/#post-3701273)
 * I used GoDaddy’s own file manager to reset the permissions on the wp-content 
   folder to allow writing.
 * And thankfully this seems to have worked.
 * I have no idea what caused it, or why, but just very grateful I can carry on 
   with my blog.

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 * [uploading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uploading/)

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 * Last reply from: [Azarna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azarna/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-will-not-upload-error/#post-3701273)
 * Status: resolved

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