Title: update error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# update error

 *  [liladiam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liladiam/)
 * (@liladiam)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-2/)
 * hi, I’ve attempted the automatic update to 3.0.1 several times but keep getting
   an error message:
    cannot create folder /public_html installation failed
 * any ideas?
 * also, I’ve added el.mo manually for greek. it worked for everything else but 
   the posts, which come up as ??? ??????? ????
 * please help.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-error-2/#post-1752794)
 * Do a manual update. It looks like your server may not be able to handle the automatic
   upgrade 🙁 this happens sometimes.

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