Title: PROBLEM – Inserting Image from desktop using ADD MEDIA button
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PROBLEM – Inserting Image from desktop using ADD MEDIA button

 *  [Iceberger12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iceberger12/)
 * (@iceberger12)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-inserting-image-from-desktop-using-add-media-button/)
 * Hello guys,
 * When I try to insert an image from my desktop onto my page – using ADD MEDIA 
   button – it fails to do so, giving me this warning:
 * “Unable to create directory uploads/2013/01. Is its parent directory writable
   by the server?”
 * I just checked the permissions of my UPLOAD FOLDER and they are as follows:
 * OWNER:
    Access: Read Write Execute
 * GROUP:
    Access: Read Execute Others: Read Execute UNIX equivalent: 755
 * I am not quite sure, but it might have started happening after the latest WP 
   update.
 * THANK YOU FOR ANY ADVICE ON HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT THIS.

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

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 * Last reply from: [Iceberger12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iceberger12/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-inserting-image-from-desktop-using-add-media-button/)
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