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Here is a recent thread with a couple of fixes for this issue.
here

Including what sovled the problem for me.
There are also several other threads related to this issue with many different fixes, just search the forum for “Unable to create directory”.

Resovled.
here is what worked for me.

In the “settings”, “miscellaneous” section, “Store uploads in this folder” box, I deleted everything before “wp-content/uploads”.

From this
/home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads

to
wp-content/uploads

including the forward slash.
this is with the “uploads” folder already created by me and given proper permissions.
Then the program created the “2009” and “03” folders automatically with no issues.

Hope this helps someone else, I have seen several threads about this error.

This unfortunately doesn’t work for me.
I have tried every combination posible. Recreating the “uploads” folder, recreating the “2009” folder, recreating the “03” folder. Deleting all of them and letting the program try to create them at different levels. Changing the name of the folder to upload to in the “miscellaneous” section of “settings”. I even recreated the “wp-content” folder.
tried every permission I can think of, and still, the same error message.
Anyone have any ideas?
this install is for a photographer so uploading images is the most important aspect. Very frustrating.

Having the exact same issue, after moving blog to a new server,updating wordpress to the latest release, uploading images gives that same error.

Moved folders “uploads, 2009 and 03” over from old site with “777” permissions, tried creating new ones, even tried not having them there so wordpress could create them, no luck
All permissions are set to be writable.

Hopefully someone might have an idia, maybe that database field mentioned above?
Even though I went through the “upgrade.php” routine and it said that it updated the database.