Title: BackUpWordPress –  directory isn't writable error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# BackUpWordPress – directory isn't writable error

 *  [DRumney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drumney/)
 * (@drumney)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backupwordpress-directory-isnt-writable-error/)
 * BackUpWordPress plugin has been working happily for a month until we made the
   site live last week when we promoted it to live (in the end we did this by just
   promoting the wp index.php file, changing the path reference in it and leaving
   everything else in the existing folder structure)
 * So the follwoing error message is now displayed:
    BackUpWordPress is almost ready.
   The backups directory can’t be created because your wp-content directory isn’t
   writable, run chown : D:/abc…org/wwwroot/site/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files or
   chmod 777 D:/abc…org/wwwroot/site/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files or create the 
   folder yourself.
 * I’ve looked up support issues about this and tried the following –
    I’ve updated
   the directory path in both the DB and then also in WP settings – setting it back
   to the original still existing backup folder which was directly under wp-content–
   and both times the plugin is automatically setting it back to wp-content/blogs.
   dir/5/files. I can’t find any reference to why it’s doing this and am not sure
   where it is getting this path from. I’ve also checked the access levels and everything
   seems to be 777.
 * Any ideas gratefully recieved.
 * thanks,
    Dave ps. I’ve tried following the php, but i’ve never written any so
   it’s a bit tricky
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backupwordpress-directory-isnt-writable-error/)
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