Mac OS X version 10.8.5 Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/10

Great! Can you explain how to do that? I’m using MAMP so how does that affect permissions?

Hi Everyone

I knew that it was probobaly a file permissions issue. I’ve tried everything to change the permissions on my file and I am having no luck.

I temporarily uploaded some images on the internet. Could you please take a look at them? I’m not sure why this is not working.

images

In the first image you can see that I went to my terminal and entered

chmod -R 777 /applications/xampp/xamppfiles/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/widgets.json

You can see in the next image that my path is correct. In the following image you can see that I am still getting the same error message.

Does anyone have an idea as to why it will not work? Thank you for your help.

I suddenly got it to work and was able to import the widgets.json.
I opened the terminal and put this in

chmod -R 777 /applications/xampp/xamppfiles/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/

Thus successfully changed the permission of the file. So to make it work for you, make sure you have the right path. Mine may or probably is different than your path.

This might seem really basic, but I’m starting back here to see if this will make the parent directory writable.
Go to the “wp-content” folder in finder, create a new folder called
“uploads” (if it doesn’t already exist) and then right click on it, select “Get Info”, a pop up box will appear, at the bottom select “Read & Write” for all the options.

Just want to say real quick, the above solution by bascent is by far the best one I have seen and I wish there was a way to like it! This is the way to go for a local development environment, no messing with the terminal or any other things.

Found a solution, hope it helps someone.

Add this to the wp-config.php file

/** Override default file permissions */
if(is_admin()) {
add_filter('filesystem_method', create_function('$a', 'return "direct";' ));
define( 'FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0751 );
}

It overrides the default permissions and also removes the FTP requirement. This error rises from the installation of a plugin within the dashboad where the permissions where not setup correctly on the web server.

Hartech Softworks,
thanks for your solution.
it worked for me on Mac OS X 10.9, XAMPP 1.8.3-4 and WordPress 3.9