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I am trying to set the upload permissions on a local folder in my test website.

I'm using Terminal on a Mac and the following command:

chmod 777 thumbs

but I get the following error

chmod: thumbs: No such file or directory

I'm really not all that sure about using Terminal so sorry if I'm not being clear - I'm trying to set up a PHP site locally on my Mac.

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you have to be in the directory that contains thumbs. Do an 

ls

to see whats in your current directory. You can also do a 

pwd

to see where on the filesystem you are. typically when you log in you are in

/home/yourusername

the thumb directory is not there.

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chmod 777 Sites/tom/upload/thumbs did the trick. thanks – Tom May 18 '11 at 14:42
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@tom, np, dont forget to use -R in case thumbs has subdirectories, unless you don't want to change the permissions on subdirs. – hvgotcodes May 18 '11 at 14:46
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