Title: Upload Folder
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Upload Folder

 *  Resolved [martinconnelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinconnelly/)
 * (@martinconnelly)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-folder-1/)
 * I just switched hosting accounts and I’m trying to get everything up and running
   again. My biggest hurdle (for right now) is that any time I uploading anything,
   I get the good old “Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads. Is its parent
   directory writable by the server?”
 * I’ve been reading the forums and this is what I’ve got so far.
 * Changed the permissions to 777 recursively.
 * /wp-content/uploads shouldn’t have the leading slash.
    I’ve tried changing this
   a dozen times, deleting cookies, restarting things. No dice. It seems like deleting
   that slash could be what I need to do, but I can’t do it. Similarly, I can’t 
   change the “Store uploads in this folder” to anything but /wp-content/uploads.
 * Any help would be very, very, appreciated.
 * Thanks,
    Martin

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 *  Thread Starter [martinconnelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinconnelly/)
 * (@martinconnelly)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-folder-1/#post-1326265)
 * More: Host did have PHP Safe Mode on. It’s now off. Uploads still not working.
   Still unable to change the directory in Settings -> Misc.
 *  Thread Starter [martinconnelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinconnelly/)
 * (@martinconnelly)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-folder-1/#post-1326278)
 * And, once again, I’m an idiot. It must have been cookies.

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 * [permision](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permision/)
 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)
 * [wp-content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-content/)

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 * Last reply from: [martinconnelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinconnelly/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-folder-1/#post-1326278)
 * Status: resolved

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