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March 09, 2011 3:29pm
Subscribe [4]#1 / Mar 09, 2011 3:29pm
In my blog “Channel” I have added a new “Custom Field” for uploading files. I have set the correct “File Upload Preferences” that points to the rite directory for uploading files.
When I try and upload a file, I receive this message in EE interface “The file could not be written to disk.”
#2 / Mar 09, 2011 10:43pm
Have you checked the folder permissions of the upload directory
#3 / Mar 10, 2011 9:17am
Thanks for the assist, mz91184.
Hi, v3imaging.
What kind of file are you getting this error with?
#4 / Mar 10, 2011 10:36am
I have checked folder write to permissions.
I’m trying to upload a PDF file.
Thank you.
#5 / Mar 10, 2011 5:13pm
Hi, v3imaging.
We’ve seen this happen when you are attempting to upload .pdf files, and oftentimes you can get around it by turning off XSS sanitation.
You can do this by doing the following:
In the control panel, go to: Admin / Security and Privacy / Security and Sessions
Then try setting the “Apply XSS Filtering to uploaded files?” value to “No”.
Does that help?
#6 / Mar 14, 2011 12:10pm
Unfortunately the “Apply XSS Filtering to uploaded files” didn’t work.
Any other thoughts?
#7 / Mar 15, 2011 5:04am
v3imaging,
What version and build of EE are you using?
What type of server environment do you have?
What permissions did you give that upload folder?
What type of file are you trying to upload?
What size is it?
In your file upload preferences can you confirm that you have a full server path in there and not just a relative url?