Title: Missing a temporary folder
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Missing a temporary folder

 *  [Sohag_mia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sohag_mia/)
 * (@sohag_mia)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/)
 * Hey guys,
    Recently I took a backup of my site and I couldn’t find the full restore
   option then I found that I can not restore my full site using cPanel. So I decided
   to restore it manually and I’ve uploaded homedirectory and MySQL database accordingly.
   My site seems ok but whenever I try to upload something it says “Missing a temporary
   folder” There are lot of more files in the backup folder but I don’t know where
   to upload them. Please help me out, I messed it up badly!

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 *  [Dan Russell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrussell/)
 * (@danrussell)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/#post-5503061)
 * Hello :),
 * You can try below code for the temporary folder in wp-config.php:
 * // Setup a temporary folder for uploading and updating
    define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,
   ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/uploads’);
 * Else, if you still have Full backup file, then you should contact your hosting
   provider and ask them to restore the full backup, so that all the settings of
   your account will get restored without any hassle.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [Sohag_mia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sohag_mia/)
 * (@sohag_mia)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/#post-5503069)
 * Thanks for your quick reply, Dan!
    Created a temp directory but didn’t helped.
   Do I need to upload the backup file in my directory to get help from my hosting
   provider?
 *  [Dan Russell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrussell/)
 * (@danrussell)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/#post-5503071)
 * Yes, you can upload the full backup file under public_html of your account and
   provide the path of the file to your hosting provider, so that they can forcefully
   restore the file on your account.
 * Remember that, if you have made any recent settings after the backup done, then
   at the time of account restoration, those settings will get overwritten.
 *  Thread Starter [Sohag_mia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sohag_mia/)
 * (@sohag_mia)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/#post-5503072)
 * Thanks for the help 🙂 Appreciate it!
 *  [rayguo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayguo/)
 * (@rayguo)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-26/#post-5503342)
 * Hi, I have exactly the same problem. Did you solve the problem with the help 
   from your hosting provider?
    The guy from godaddy told me to that I should seek
   help from godaddy instead of them…

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