Integration > Storage Locations is an admin panel in the forum admin – just beneath where you were when looking at the Smileys panel.

Various storage locations (folders on your server) are created – or at least creation is attempted – during the Simple:Press install. Very rarely but every now and then, it will encounter a web server where it is not possible to create those folders due to permission settings on the server. Or – more rarely – the install will be able tp create the folders but not always assign them the correct permissions to make them writeable.

As the message said – the first task is to visit that admin panel and see what is wrong – i.e., missing or just not writeable – and then correct as needed. If exists then the usual permissions used for a folder are 755 and for files within them 644.

I definitely don’t have Integration > Storage Locations  in the admin panel. Please advise. Thank you!

Well there is a peculiarity.

go to the ‘Admins’ section (the one with the star icon) and open up the pane; named ‘Manager Admins’ and against your own section there should be a ‘Manage Integration’ cap. Tunn that on, save and then reload the whole forum admin from the WP menu.

Got it!

Now, I’m seeing a whole lot of red X telling Location not found.

I hover over the blue I next to the Smileys with the  X – the instructions are running off the page and cannot be seen. Is there a way to find these instruction aside from the hover over? 

Thank you!

Ok – well first they are NOT instructions – merely descriptions of what the folder is for. Next – interesting that they are not contained in a tooltip within the page/device display area. Suggests a conflict with some other display item on the site. Would be nice to know what…

So – why are you now seeing more locations with a problem than before? What did you change to make that happen?

By the way – as the popup help will tell you – you an actually store this stuff wherever you want. The default locations are just that – defaults.

Yellow Swordfish said
Ok – well first they are NOT instructions – merely descriptions of what the folder is for. Next – interesting that they are not contained in a tooltip within the page/device display area. Suggests a conflict with some other display item on the site. Would be nice to know what…

So – why are you now seeing more locations with a problem than before? What did you change to make that happen?

By the way – as the popup help will tell you – you an actually store this stuff wherever you want. The default locations are just that – defaults.

 

I wasn’t seeing more locations with the problem. I just didn’t list every one previously. 

I added locations.  

Thank you for your help. 

That’s good to hear.

Any news on why the install could not create them in the first place?