By wdolson on

I just installed drupal 7.15 and I'm working on configuring the system. When I go to Configuration->Account Settings, I get an error message

The directory public://pictures does not exist or is not writable.

I'm not sure where this is supposed to be created. I tried creating a pictures directory under the drupal, but that didn't work. I've tried several other ideas, but is still didn't work. Where should this directory be created to work correctly?

Thanks,
Bill

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savithac’s picture

savithac commented

Go to your drupal sites/default folder.
Give "Create and delete files" permission for "files" folder.

christalyost’s picture

christalyost commented

it should be at:

your_drupal7/sites/default/files/pictures

so cd to /sites/default/files
mkdir pictures

That worked for me, and I was then able to set the configuration so that administrators only can register accounts.

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BugMagnet commented

having issues with this on version 7.28

    The directory public://pictures does not exist or is not writable.
    The settings have not been saved because of the errors.

Personalization
Picture directory = [pictures]
Subdirectory in the file upload directory where pictures will be stored.

in path***/web/sites/files there is a subdirectory "pictures" with permissions 775

kolade.ige’s picture

kolade.ige commented

Go to Home » Administration » Configuration » Media

  1. Set the content of the Public file system path box to files and save.
  2. Next go to: Home » Administration » Configuration » People and type pictures in the Picture directory under Personalization and save.
harhor@greasp.com’s picture

harhor@greasp.com commented

Is there any other way to fix this? I have this error, but site is too old and my temp (/fs_temp in my case, same as the private and system temporary catalog) dir have too much files, if I just change the public directory - many pictures and other files will be broken and I don't want to copy my "/fs_temp" to "sites/default/files", due it has big size audio etc. that belongs to some fields and using temp dir. Also if I create "pictures" in "fs_temp" nothing goes right, error still there.

Richard_1618’s picture

Richard_1618 commented

Worked like a charm!!

dooug’s picture

dooug commented

I've documented this bug and pointed to the root cause bug report here: #2509188: The directory public://pictures does not exist or is not writable.