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forum – integration – storage locations ????

JA JA
JA
Member

When I go to

Options > Smileys

I see this message:
Sorry, uploads disabled! Storage location does not exist or is not writable. Please see forum – integration – storage locations to correct.

 

Is this on the Dashboard? I’m not seeing it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

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.

JA JA
JA
Member

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

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

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.

JA JA
JA
Member

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!

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

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.

 

JA JA
JA
Member

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. 

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

That’s good to hear.

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