Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Issues with Backups
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Issues with Backups

 *  Resolved [blinktimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blinktimes/)
 * (@blinktimes)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-issues-with-backups/)
 * Hello Tom,
    I would like to first thank you for the plugin. It seems to have 
   a nice feature set. But, there are some that are not working for me.
 * I manually changed the default backup path in core-functions.php
 *     ```
       function hmbkp_path_default() {
       	return hmbkp_conform_dir('E:\\backups');
       	//return hmbkp_conform_dir( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/backups' );
       }
       ```
   
 * The backup folder gets created and data put in.
 * The problem is this: I cannot get a complete backup. The last folder it backs
   up is the first theme folder inside wp-content/themes
    Nothing after that gets
   backed up. The zip is created though.
 * Another problem is that I cannot exclude any folder inside wp-content nor that
   very folder itself. It just does not process it. But It does sayon top :
    `The
   following paths will be excluded from your backups /wp-content/uploads.`
 * Help would be appreciated.
 * PS> I am using the latest version of your plugin. 1.5.1
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-issues-with-backups/#post-2461898)
 * Hi blinktimes
 * This should now be working properly in 1.6.1
 *  Thread Starter [blinktimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blinktimes/)
 * (@blinktimes)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-issues-with-backups/#post-2461899)
 * Thanks Tom. I will give it a try.

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 * Last reply from: [blinktimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blinktimes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-issues-with-backups/#post-2461899)
 * Status: resolved