Title: Missing a temporary folder."
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Missing a temporary folder."

 *  [windysky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windysky/)
 * (@windysky)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-28/)
 * Hello,
 * I realize there are several topics on this but nothing has helped to date. Running
   WP Simple theme.
 * “(xxx) has failed to upload due to an error
    Missing a temporary folder.”
 * Hosted site (BlackSun), re-installed WordPress and copied a backup. The WP, plug-
   ins, and theme version were the same as before the re-install. I am unsure if
   this issue occurred before or after this but I did not notice until after.
 * Things I have tried without success:
 * – created “tmp” folder on the root directory
 * – created “tmp” folder on the wp-content directory (not sure of my rationale 
   there)
 * – changed permissions to 777 on root directory through FTP
 * – deleted useless logs from tmp files that were taking up space (yes I’m sure
   this is all I deleted)
 * – had the host modify php.ini per this post [http://www.abluelink.com/2009/01/04/fixing-missing-a-temporary-folder-error&#8211](http://www.abluelink.com/2009/01/04/fixing-missing-a-temporary-folder-error&#8211);
   on-wordpress-27-uploader/
 * – had the host’s “PHP expert” whatever that means log into my wordpress and the
   server and try some things, they did not tell me what.
 * – de-activated plug-ins and theme one by one to determine if there is a conflict
   after they told me to do so. They keep trying to suggest this is the problem,
   when I am quite sure it isn’t.
 * Help 🙁

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 *  Thread Starter [windysky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windysky/)
 * (@windysky)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-28/#post-5973894)
 * An update to the situation. Since the host won’t allow me to edit php.ini myself(
   I can only view it), I asked them to look into the path and reerenced to several
   several threads on this topic. They edited it, but it still looked like a messed
   up path. They then responded to me that this was outdated troubleshooting and
   not relevant to this issue. I doubt that. Now the php.ini file does not exist
   at all as I believe they deleted it. They insist it’s a permissions issue, but
   changing either and both the temp folder and the uploads folder to to 777 results
   in no change. Temporarily changing the wp-content folder throws a 500 error.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-a-temporary-folder-28/#post-5973894)
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