Title: updraft creates wp-content subdirectory
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# updraft creates wp-content subdirectory

 *  Resolved [ashtonej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashtonej/)
 * (@ashtonej)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/)
 * When I install updraft it creates a subdirectory inside wp-content that has the
   same name so I get
 * /wp-content/wp-content/updraft/
 * How can I stop this happening?
 * Thanks,
 * Jim
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143078)
 * Hi Jim,
 * Is this a brand new install on a site that’s never had UD before? Any other relevant
   info? I’m trying to reproduce this, but without success so far.
 * David
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143080)
 * P.S. Also two more questions:
 * 1) if you go to your UD settings page, and into the ‘expert’ section (at the 
   bottom), then what is shown under ‘Backup directory:’ ?
 * 2) If you install the plugin ‘SQL Executioner’, and use it to run this SQL, then
   what is the results?
 * SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name=’updraft_dir’;
 * (You may need to change the wp_ in that above line to match what is in your wp-
   config.php file, if the value of $table_prefix in that file is not wp_).
 * Best wishes,
    David
 *  Thread Starter [ashtonej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashtonej/)
 * (@ashtonej)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143082)
 * Thanks for the pointer. The expert settings section is showing wp_content/updraft.
 * I’m doing a backup at the moment so I’ll change it after it ends. Will restore
   work if I change it?
 * I’m backing up before I install WP 3.6.1 so I don’t want to get things to get
   messy in case I have to restore.
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143083)
 * Hi Jim,
 * Is this a brand new install on a site that’s never had UD before? Or was UD upgraded
   from a previous version?
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [ashtonej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashtonej/)
 * (@ashtonej)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143084)
 * I think I had installed updraft before but at that time I couldn’t get it to 
   connect to google drive. I re-installed yesterday and I’m now using dropbox instead
   as updraft still can’t connect to google drive. I think the problem is the ISP
   service we have because I have updraft installed on a VPS we have with a different
   provider and the google drive functionality works fine.
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143100)
 * Hi Jim,
 * I’ve worked it out now. This sequence of events triggers the problem:
    1) Install
   UpdraftPlus before version 1.7.18 2) De-install it 3) Remove the directory wp-
   content/updraft 4) Install 1.7.18
 * Once your backup has finished, to fix things up, do this, in this order:
    1) 
   Open the UpdraftPlus settings page, and go into the ‘expert settings’ 2) Via 
   FTP, copy wp-content/wp-content/updraft to wp-content/updraft 3) In the expert
   settings, change wp-content/updraft to updraft 4) Save settings 5) Via FTP, remove
   wp-content/wp-content/updraft from the filesystem
 * Then, all should be fine. I’ve also tweaked the existing 1.7.18 release so that
   new people downloading it will not have this problem (it will detect the scenario
   and deal with it correctly).
 * Best wishes,
    David
 *  Thread Starter [ashtonej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashtonej/)
 * (@ashtonej)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraft-creates-wp-content-subdirectory/#post-4143147)
 * Thanks for your lightening quick diagnosis, reply and fix.
 * Jim

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