littleredelf

@nabtron: simple & easy fix – last week our website blew up and changed servers, re-writing the name of the dir the blog and uploads were in.

i went into Miscellaneous Settings as instructed and changed the dir back to “wp-content/uploads” and all was restored!

thank you!

i am also having this problem on a fresh install.

as mentioned above by tenminutes, i came across this discussion of one possible solution. it didn’t however work for me. the newly created ftp user pointing directly to the exact dir folder where the blog resides works just fine through Filezilla, but WordPress still is:

“Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content)”

Thus, i am unable to add plugins, themes, etc.

and THIS description of an odd fix, of course, if anyone can translate that for me and how i might implement that, i’d give it a whirl.

i’ve also tried to restore a recent backup from a copy of the blog i have as a WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file and i get this error:

“Sorry, there has been an error.
Missing a temporary folder.”

i have a feeling these errors are related and that odd solution notes that “ftp_rawlist requires write access to “/tmp”.”

🙂

thanks so much for this solution . . . i simply disabled Gears for my WordPress site and all was well again with the image insert/upload.