upload image problem plus

Hi,
A couple of days ago I started having intermittent upload problems. When I tried to upload media from my computer, I got an IO error. The weird thing is, that even though I get the IO error, the image does exist; as a matter of fact, it appears that multiple sizes of the same image are uploading (only one image appears in the media library but the original plus two different sizes show up in my uploads folder. If I use the browser uploader, I don’t have these problems. Anyone have a clue as to why this suddenly started? By the way, this happened today and two days ago, but yesterday I had no issues.

I have another weird thing going on, and I would like to know why, but I’m trying not to be greedy, so I only list it here in case it is a clue to the upload behavior:

It appears that I might have gotten a faulty backup. I use installatron to do backups and there were two there…the odd thing is, that it affected my uploads folder by creating an additional folder for every single year and month, with some long-string name that included the word backup and then a string of numbers. In 99% of the cases, the backup folder was identical to the actual image folder, but in two or three folders, the weird backup folder had many more files in it, which I had to copy over.

I did all of that, eliminated the duplicate folders and did a new backup which looks normal.

The only other things I have recently changed (but before I started having the problems) was that I added three new plugins:
Exclude Pages from Navigation
GTranslate
Pages Posts

Again, I don’t mean to be giving TOO MUCH INFORMATION…just didn’t want to leave out any possible clues.

Thank you all in advance!
Debbie

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