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Even after following this I continued to have issues. It simply wouldn’t recognise the full path of the upload directroy. My WordPress 2.6 installation is in /blog and not the root, and my images folder is not under WordPress, but at the root level. I had to leave “Store uploads in this folder” blank because it only accepts paths relative to the WP installation folder, and even though I put the full path into the next field “Full URL path to files”, it refused to actually upload files there, instead putting them in wp-content/uploads, no matter what I did.

So, I deleted wp-content/uploads and then used the C-Panel Cron Jobs option to create a one-time cron job which creates a sym link pointing from wp-content/uploads to the proper location. And now the uploads work flawlessly and I get to instantly see an image in my Visual editor whilst posting, and no longer have to manually move the images across.

Something like:

45 03 * * * ln -s /where/your/images/are/really/stored /where/your/wp/thinks/they/should/go/wp-content/uploads

Then delete the cron job once it completes successfully.

Hope this helps someone else.