I have no idea. I’m not sure how to find out without my web guy looking into it. All other plugins are working and updating just fine – it’s just this SP one that won’t -manually or automatically.
But do other plugins have the same problem if updated manually? I agree with Steve on this one – that all appears to be ftp issues and completely local.
The question was do they update when you manually updater them – via ftp. I am merely saying that you appear to have ftp issues either with your server or your ftp client. You say you can not manually update SP thus you should not be able yo manually use ftp for anything.
I have done one manual update and it worked. And I used the ftp for that plugin you recommended and it uploaded fine.
Then that might suggest there is a problem with the folders that Simple:Press were set up in being unwritable. Asl ong as they can be read the code would run OK but perhaps it can not be removed/replaced.