November 28, Land Of Plenty

I was experiencing some technical difficulties this morning as I wrote this post so I called for help. People who sit around all day and solve technical problems are special people with an unfair geek stereotype.

I actually am a techno geek but only claim that mantle when it’s convenient. I was told by my hosting service that they couldn’t solve the problem for me. I’ve learned from my years in IT that there are no unsolvable problems. If a solution is out of reach, then there is always a work around, i.e., throw out the baby with the bathwater and start anew. It’s an awful idiom but it applies.

In this case, I didn’t have to throw out the bathwater and the baby was saved.

If you have a Wordpress blog on a shared server, and you get this error message “Failed to write file to disk” when you attempt to load a photo, let me save you two hours on the phone with your hosting service. After all, there are dishes, laundry and Christmas shopping yet to be accomplished.

After I spoke to tech support, I googled the problem and I found that you don’t have to -

- fiddle with your php.ini file
- increase your storage space
- delete a temp folder (that you can’t find)

Simply upgrade your Wordpress files. Yeah – it worked.

I hope this helps someone out there.

I hope you enjoy the photo because I literally went through hades to put it on this post.

Happy Monday.