WordPress update

The “partial” keyword there is because you’re getting the updated files, and not the complete system. That saves bandwidth and gives you the files that you need without any of the extra stuff that’s not needed.

As for why you can’t update, that error message pretty much always means that you’ve got a permissions issue on the server where the user that’s running the PHP process doesn’t have the rights to write files to the file system. If you are not to good with setting file permissions yourself, then contact your hosting company and ask them to look at it.

Hi!

Thanks for your response. I meant to say last night in case you said it was a permissions issue, that I recursed into all subdirectories with 777 and the issue remains.

Then that says that it’s still something to do with permissions, but it’s something that will be outside of your control. You’ll have to contact your hosting company about that and ask them why you can’t save files. They’ll be the only ones that will be able to give you an answer about that.

Thanks all sorted .. it was the config .. didnt look there at first because plugins were updating. I had recently consolidated all my websites onto the same webspace.

Thanks for your support, much appreciated ??