Title: Session Error Appearing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Session Error Appearing

 *  [willroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willroy/)
 * (@willroy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-error-appearing/)
 * I have started to see these 3 lines of code within the Backwpup screens and is
   preventing me from taking any backups:
 *     ```
       Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/home/###/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-98372-temp//sess_7346daffd01465658d2a8d5cc1016bb7, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/###/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-admin.php on line 253
   
       Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/###/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-admin.php:253) in /home/###/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-admin.php on line 253
   
       Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/###/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-admin.php:253) in /home/###/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-admin.php on line 253
       ```
   
 * I have see a similar issue where the tmp file isn’t writable, can someone provide
   any light?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-error-appearing/#post-3688628)
 * Ok, in next update the session handling will only used in pro wizards.
 * The sessions only need to displaying messages in free version.
 * I hope that can help you.
 * Them main problem will be that the folder: /home/###/public_html/wp-content/uploads/
   backwpup-98372-temp/ not exists. Try to create it.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-error-appearing/#post-3688628)
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