Title: another problem migrating to wordpress.org
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# another problem migrating to wordpress.org

 *  [julieQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julieq/)
 * (@julieq)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-problem-migrating-to-wordpressorg/)
 * I’m sorry to ask this simple question again. I know it’s been asked many times
   before and I searched the forum extensively for an answer to no avail. I can’t
   seem to import the date from my wordpress.com blog to my wordpress.org blog. 
   I successfully installed 2.6 on my server. I downloaded the export file from 
   my wordpress.com blog to my hard drive, but when I tried to import the file to
   my wordpress.org blog I got the following message: Sorry, there has been an error.
   Unable to create directory /home/julie/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/
   01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
 * How do I check if the parent directory is writable by the server?
 * I also tried manually creating the directory on my server and manually moving
   the xml file into it but that didn’t seem to work either. Any help would be much
   appreciated.

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 *  [Michael Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfields/)
 * (@mfields)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-problem-migrating-to-wordpressorg/#post-956189)
 * Julie, It looks like you are try to import the images and your server is not 
   allowing them to be written. I would log in via ftp and check to see if you have
   an “uploads” folder directly under /wp-content/. If you do, you can check the
   permissions in many ftp programs by right clicking on the folder. 777 works best
   for this directory. If you do not have the “uploads” folder, create it and set
   permissions to 777.
 * [Filezilla](http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client) is a decent,
   free ftp program.

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 * [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-com/)

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfields/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-problem-migrating-to-wordpressorg/#post-956189)
 * Status: not resolved

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