Attachments not uploading

[RichieBoy67]

My clients server does not allow chmod 777 and when using 755 which is max permission I get the following error. This confirms file permissions? Right? Also to confirm this issue I tried moving the attachments to a new directory and I also got the message that the new directory was not writable under both 777 and 755.

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Fatal error:

• Could not create file system directory to hold your attachment.

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_AttachmentFiledata in ..../includes/class_dm.php on line 849
#0 vb_error_handler(256,

• Could not create file system directory to hold your attachment.

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I am unsure how to serve his attachments without file permission. Is there a way around this? I was under the impression that 755 should work on his server.


His site was hacked some time ago through an older version of Vbseo. My guess is that his host changed the file permissions at this time. I am thinking about moving his attachments to the database but he has many gigs worth.


Thoughts?


Thanks!


Rich