Title: Update Problems
Last modified: May 18, 2018

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# Update Problems

 *  [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-problems-30/)
 * My host doesn’t support automatic updates (security). The problem is that it’s
   messed up the update process.
 * When I do the update, it starts ok, downloading update… but then all indications
   that an update is proceeding, vanish and from that point on, there is no activity
   at all, so I don’t know if it’s updated or not! So I leave it, hoping that it’s
   still actually carrying out the update but still no sign.
 * Eventually I open a new window and try to update again (I can see the site, so
   it’s not in Maintenance mode) but when I try to run the update again, I get a
   message that the update is in progress!!!
 * I think it’s the ‘automatic’ update that’s the problem as I’ve been having this
   problem ever since WP added the function.

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 *  Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-problems-30/#post-10294046)
 * Update: Okay, I waited half an hour but the update hasn’t happened. I successfully
   updated the themes though without a problem.
 *  Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-problems-30/#post-10294680)
 * Well I installed a plugin which in theory turns off automatic updating, tried
   to update again and nothing happened. I’ve tried 4-5 times.
 *  Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-problems-30/#post-10298105)
 * Well, still not working. It tells me ‘unpacking update’ and then nothing…
 * I just checked the site contents and there is a folder in wp-content (Upgrade)
   and it contains the 4.9.6 upgrade with the exact name of: wordpress-4.9.6-jLWHVp.
   It contains the complete upgrade.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/).
      Reason: additional info

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## Tags

 * [automatic update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic-update/)
 * [updating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updating/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-problems-30/#post-10298105)
 * Status: not resolved

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