# Gravityforms: Upload folder is not writable

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/gravityforms-upload-folder-is-not-writable/1817
**Category:** bedrock
**Created:** 2014-06-18T08:33:56Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @Mrhero — 2014-06-18T08:33:56Z

Hey,

Since I activated the Gravityforms plugin, I have this warning message in the dashboard:

> Upload folder is not writable. Export and file upload features will not be functional.

I checked the uploads folder’s permissions (app/uploads), it’s well set to 755. I made a chown -R :www-data on the folder to make sure that the web server is able to write to the directory but nothing, I still have the warning message.

What’s up with that? Any Ideas?

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## Post 2 by @Foxaii — 2014-06-18T15:40:40Z

Your chown command changed the group to www-data, but the group permissions are only set to read/execute.

Drop the : to make the www-data user the owner or use 775.

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## Post 3 by @Mrhero — 2014-06-18T22:02:49Z

Thank you @Foxaii, that fixed it.