Image upload broken when editing content

Question

Sorry if I'm using incorrect terms here. What's going on is, when I edit any content, as the the types of content under 'Content Management > Content Type', there's the Image: field, which I think is provided by the CCK Imagefield module or Imagecache. (I'm on 6.x-3.10 of Imagefield)

When I choose a file and click upload, I get a thumbnail image (http:/mysite.com/sites/mysite.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/image.jpg?1357151034). When I click 'Preview', I get a preview with the image I uploaded (http://mysite.com/sites/mysite.com/files/imagecache/product/image.jpg). When I save, the image is gone, and going back to the edit form, it doesn't show up as an attached image. One possible clue; this content type isn't 'product', but it's in sites/mysite.com/files/imagecache/product/.

This all worked until a couple of weeks ago, when I updated a bunch of modules. I did a whole site backup before I ran the updates, and a development version of the site on my local computer doesn't have this problem on up to date modules. The only way I can replicate it on my local machine is to use a backup of the database from after this error occurred.

Answer 1

Make sure the file directory exists at sites/default/files and make sure it is writeable by the web server. For this you need to go to the file directory if you are familiar with terminal and type chmod -R 775 files when in the directory that contains the file directory. otherwise in an FTP client like Filezilla right click the file and click file permissions and change the permissions there. You may also need to check that this folder files/imagecache/product exists and is writeable.