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Joomla - An error has occurred. Copy file failed

Joomla 2.5 & 3.0
Installing - updating

Here's an easy way to find which file didn't copy - then at least you can troubleshoot why.

Open file libraries/joomla/filesystem/folder.php and find the three instances of the text 'Copy file failed'
They are around lines 104 & 142

Change:

throw new RuntimeException('Copy file failed, -1);

to

throw new RuntimeException('Copy file failed - file: '.$dfid, -1);

Then run your update again and this time we have:

Copy file failed - file: /home/gjctest/public_html/febo/components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/plugins/clipboard/classes/config.php

Now with a file manager browse to that file - wrong permissions!

Copy file failed permissions

Change permissions to 644

Copy file failed change permissions

re-run the install/update - you may find some more files with 400 etc permissions (they can't be wriiten by anyone - some hosts run scripts that set all files with names like config.php etc to 400) - fix them (they will be shown with the error as before.
Then:

Copy file success

Last Updated on Monday, 28 April 2014 14:30

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