Title: Cannot update automatically
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot update automatically

 *  [jinsenkaredath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsenkaredath/)
 * (@jinsenkaredath)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/)
 * Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.2.zip](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.2.zip).
 * Unpacking the update.
 * Could not create directory: /home/jkin/public_html/blog/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-
   2.tmp/wordpress/wp-includes/js/codepress/engines
 * Installation Failed
 * this is the error I am getting… till this version there were no issue… can someone
   have a solution?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1395810)
 * do it manually?
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 *  [tijmz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmz/)
 * (@tijmz)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1395945)
 * I’ve been having this problem for some time now and I’d really like to know how
   to fix it. This is, I think, the third upgrade I would have to do manually and
   while that’s not a problem in itself, the auto-updater would really make life
   easy when it comes to plugin updates.
 * So while manually updating does solve the immediate problem, I’d really be grateful
   if somebody could help me out fixing the auto-updates.
 *  [Markthedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markthedude/)
 * (@markthedude)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1396043)
 * I’ve also been having this same issue, please, if anyone knows what’s causing
   the fail please help.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1396044)
 * on some servers you can chmod `/wp-content` to 777
    do an upgrade then chmod 
   back to 755 should work after that
 *  [tijmz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmz/)
 * (@tijmz)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1396072)
 * Unfortunately, that doesn’t work. I’ve tried chmoding the dirs before, but it
   makes no difference for the error.
 * Thanks anyway, though 🙂
 *  [trevor-jacques](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevor-jacques/)
 * (@trevor-jacques)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1396135)
 * I, too, have tried the 777 route to no avail. One is forced to wonder when this/
   these annoying bug/s will be squashed. It’s been frustrating for many, many WP
   versions, both for upgrading WP and for plugins. There seems to be little rhyme
   nor reason to which installations of WP on my server upgrade properly and which
   do not.
 * :-/
 * Mac OS X Server 10.5.x

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [trevor-jacques](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevor-jacques/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-automatically/#post-1396135)
 * Status: not resolved

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