Title: update wipes out Posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# update wipes out Posts

 *  [joehark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joehark/)
 * (@joehark)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wipes-out-posts/)
 * I just tried to do an auto-update of my WP installation. The system reported 
   the update went OK.
 * So I then did an auto-update of two very comoon plugins. That too seemd to go
   OK.
 * But at the end, I got the following error mesages
 * QUOTE
    Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/sess_1aef7a0f3c1d20efef4fbc2b534a0bc9, O_RDWR)
   failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
 * Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the
   current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
 * ENDQUOTE
 * and every Post was gone from my site.
 * Fortunately, I had made a full backup before startng. So I was able to restore.
 * But my WP is still out o date. I can’t address that until I fix whatever is generating
   the error msgs and wiping out the Posts.
 * Anyone have a suggestion?

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 *  [bioshox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bioshox/)
 * (@bioshox)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wipes-out-posts/#post-2898023)
 * There seems to of been a permission error on your server within the /tmp directory.
 * This will of caused a fatal error and when the update was in progress some files
   will of failed to update causing issues further down the line.
 * Because of this the database won’t of been changed correctly and in result your
   posts dropped.
 * I’d update WordPress manually for now to get your site up to date and then look
   into the issue with your server administrator around permissions on files and
   folders for your own needs.
 * /tmp is usually fully writable to the world though.

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 * Last reply from: [bioshox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bioshox/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wipes-out-posts/#post-2898023)
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