Title: Missing Temporary Folder – cannot resolve!
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Missing Temporary Folder – cannot resolve!

 *  [SamuelH82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samuelh82/)
 * (@samuelh82)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-temporary-folder-cannot-resolve/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am currently working on getting a website set up using WordPress. We have paid
   a developer to develop the site, my role is to get the webspace ready for the
   site.
 * I have installed WordPress according to the instructions and created a login.
   I gave the login to the developer so he could log in, but when he tries to import
   content he gets an error message about a missing temporary folder.
 * I checked google and saw that this was down to config settings needing set in
   PHP.INI. I created a PHP.INI file and put it into both the root of my wordpress
   folder, and the wp-admin folder. But nothing had worked. I even tried modifying
   the wp-config.php file to specify temporary directory here, but again, nothing
   worked.
 * My PHP.INI file looks like this:
 * `[PHP]`
    `upload_max_filesize = 16M` `upload_tmp_dir = on` `upload_tmp_dir = 
   <my WP folder location>\tmp`
 * Is there something I am missing here?
 * Sam

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-temporary-folder-cannot-resolve/)
 * Status: not resolved

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