Title: cURL problem:  Error Processing Request: failed creating formpost data
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# cURL problem: Error Processing Request: failed creating formpost data

 *  [melmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melmo/)
 * (@melmo)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-problem-error-processing-request-failed-creating-formpost-data/)
 * Hi,
 * I installed WPB2D today and authorised the link to Dropbox with no problems.
 * When I run a manual backup, it starts to create the folders in the Dropbox but
   when it tries to copy files across it repeatedly runs into this problem:
 * 14:56:42: A fatal error occured: The backup is having trouble uploading files
   to Dropbox, it has failed 10 times and is aborting the backup.
    14:56:42: Error
   uploading ‘/WWWROOT/#####/htdocs/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/content.php’ 
   to Dropbox: Error Processing Request: failed creating formpost data
 * From googling it seems like this is a cURL error but I don’t know how to fix 
   it.
 * I’m using WordPress 3.5.1, PHP 5.2.17 and cURL is installed.
 * Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 * Cheers,
 * Mel
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-problem-error-processing-request-failed-creating-formpost-data/#post-3829169)
 * Gday Mel,
 * This is a new issue that I have not seen before.
 * It looks like you are using a Linux server wich is good, do you know if that 
   path is a symbolic link?
 * Cheers,
    Mikey
 *  Thread Starter [melmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melmo/)
 * (@melmo)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-problem-error-processing-request-failed-creating-formpost-data/#post-3829170)
 * Hi Mikey,
 * No sorry I don’t even know what that means, does it help if I can tell you the
   folder structure I can see in ftp?
 * Mel
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-problem-error-processing-request-failed-creating-formpost-data/#post-3829186)
 * Gday Mel,
 * What you can see in FTP is not necessarily how the the file system hangs together
   and FTP is too abstract too see what is going on.
 * Here is some info on SymLinks if you’re interested => [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link)
 * SymLinks is just a guess so I will have to have a play on my dev boxes to see
   if they are actually the cause.
 * Cheers,
    Mikey
 *  Thread Starter [melmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melmo/)
 * (@melmo)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-problem-error-processing-request-failed-creating-formpost-data/#post-3829205)
 * Okay cool, I’ll have a read through and wait for you to see if you can replicate
   the problem. Thanks!

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