Title: Update Failed: Could Not Create Directory
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Update Failed: Could Not Create Directory

 *  [spvemm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spvemm/)
 * (@spvemm)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-failed-could-not-create-directory/)
 * Whenever I try to update a plug-in eg. Akismet, I’m receiving this error:
 * An error occurred while updating Akismet: Could not create directory. D:/INETPUB/
   VHOSTS/markbofficial.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/
 * Did anyone encounter such issue?
 * Thanks.

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