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When I goto admin/reports/updates/update select all and then hit the "Download these updates" I get the following error message

The specified file temporary://filewq3Nao could not be copied, because the destination directory is not properly configured. This may be caused by a problem with file or directory permissions. More information is available in the system log. http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/ctools-7.x-1.0-alpha4.tar.gz could not be saved to temporary://update-cache/ctools-7.x-1.0-alpha4.tar.gz.

File System Settings can be found here: admin/config/media/file-system

/tmp is setup with 777 and I get NO errors on this page. I attempted to create a /tmp2 with 777 and that directory would fail the security checks. I am on shared hosting. There are directories in /tmp called analog, awstats, cpbandwidth, webalizer, webalizerftp which I assume are CPannel utilities:)

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  • I also had the same problem for sometime after I switched servers. Changing the directory to ~/tmp/drupal saved me after hours of hair pulling.
    – user11132
    Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 23:25

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You probably have your own tmp directory, which is not /tmp but /some/path/to/your/directory/tmp. You wouldn't be allowed to create /tmp2 for sure :)

To find that out, go to admin/reports/status/php and look for _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"], that will tell you where Drupal is located and from there, you should be able to build the path to your tmp directory.

Then set the temporary directory to that.

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  • ~/tmp/drupal worked
    – MGParisi
    Commented Apr 1, 2011 at 20:24
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Made a directory under "tmp" and had to use "~/tmp/drupal". Found this in some obscure part of the world

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