Title: CSV Importing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# CSV Importing

 *  Resolved [mydigitera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mydigitera/)
 * (@mydigitera)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-importing/)
 * I get this message when trying to upload a file.
 * “Temporary file not found. Could not save TailGators Event Import File – Ladies
   Night.csv.”
 * I’ve been uploading successfully all day, so was quite surprised to get this 
   error message. Can you advise on what this means and how to fix this?
 * Jordan
    [info@mydigitera.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-importing/info@mydigitera.com?output_format=md)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)

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 *  [Brook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brook-tribe/)
 * (@brook-tribe)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-importing/#post-5057736)
 * Howdy mydigitera,
 * That is a good question. Let me explain to you some of the inner workings of 
   PHP to inform the problem. When you upload a file via a web browser to a PHP 
   website it is stored in a special tmp folder. PHP gives give the script, in this
   case the Events Calendar, the name of that temporary file and it should give 
   the script permission to access the file. However, sometimes it does not give
   the appropriate permission, or the file is not successfully uploaded and so PHP
   can not give a filename. When that happens PHP gives you this error.
 * Sometimes this is the result of a misconfiguration of your php.ini. However, 
   if you it only does this for one file it is likely something about the file itself.
   Is the file too big? Is the filename causing problems? Does the file contain 
   a virus and get blocked by a virus scanner? All of these can result in that error
   you see. The first place ot check is your server logs. You might also try renaming
   the file. Finally, if nothing else you can resort to google for reasons why the
   php function file_exists() is returning false for an upload.
 * I hope that helps you resolve this. Cheers!
 * – Brook

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-importing/#post-5057736)
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