I’m having the same issue. Came to forums to see if something could be worked out.
Does the old phrase, “misery loves company” apply here?
It works if I change the “uploads” directory permissions to 777, so I did that, but I immediately changed back to 755 for security after I uploaded. Easy enough for me, but still sort of a hack.
I solved this problem by deleting and re-creating my uploads folder.
I also walked away for 24 hours…maybe a caching issue?
Don’t know why it worked but it did.
I’m having the same problem grianach.
I did the same things that you did in creating the folder and changing the permissions.
I also just tried uploading images into the folder via FTP, but the WordPress system didn’t recognize them either.
The upshot is that I can’t access images in any way for my new WP installation.
What did I miss?
(PS- in another WP installation upgraded to 2.8.1 I have no problem with images)
