By quasarfleet on

I've installed Drupal, everything seems to be running properly; however, when I try and upload a picture for my profile, I get the following error:

* The selected file sites/default/files/tmp/2sexy4fur_0.jpg could not be uploaded, because the destination is not properly configured.
* Failed to upload the picture image; the pictures directory doesn't exist or is not writable.

What do I need to do to correct this?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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theabacus commented

One of two things is happening, as the error suggests.

Does the directory exists? Go to [drupal_root]/sites/default/files/tmp. Does the folder does exist, then it is a permissions problem. Check the permissions on the folder. It should be 775 or 777..

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quasarfleet commented

I tried that. I set the 'tmp' folder, the 'pictures' folder (which is in the 'files' folder alongside 'tmp'), and also the 'files' folder itself all too chmod 777. Same error. Any other suggestions?

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quasarfleet commented

Shameless bump... Anyone else have any suggestions?

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joebd_man commented

I was getting the identical error message, trying to post a new avatar picture while deleting the existing one.

What eventually worked was to do it in separate steps: First, check the box to delete existing picture, and "Submit."

Then, browse for and upload the new picture, and "Submit." No error.

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ardnet commented

By the way, I had the same problem too like quasarfleet.

Anyway,
The problem with my issue is, I can not upload the profile picture in the first place.
And seems no checkbox showing up at all in my case.
So how can I check the box for deleting the existing picture like u suggested?

But there's something that I noticed,
when I upload the picture for profile (even though showing that error message), the pictures it does appear in the tmp folder, but the permission of that picture file is not 777.

I already set the permission for the folder like this: chmod -R 777 tmp, so i assume what ever the files that exist in that tmp folder also have permission of 777.

But even though i already upload the picture several times, still the permission of the picture file is not 777.

Is this could be the problem?
Any thoughts?

Thanks