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#13940 Could not open archive file '/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup/site-localhost-20121023-165854.j01' for append!

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 05 November 2012 04:02 CST

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 10:23 CDT

Virtually There
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: (2.5.7)
PHP version: (5.3.5)
MySQL version: (5.5.8)
Host: (localhost on Wampserver - Windows 7)
Akeeba Backup version: (3.6.8)

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Description of my issue: Hi. I've recently got a new pc and installed Wampserver onto it. I am unable to run any backups from any of my sites currently hosted on my Wampserver and keep getting the error message Could not open archive file '/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup/site-localhost-20121023-165854.j01' for append!

Would greatly appreciate some assistance... I've tried all sorts of things to get it to work from reinstalling Akeeba Backup to changing settings as suggested on some other tickets but am failing!!

Thanks a mil
Ann

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 10:27 CDT

nicholas
You have to change the ACL settings of your WAMPServer's www directory. First determine which folder it is. I can't help you with that (last time I used WAMPserver was several months ago – my primary computer is a Mac and on when on Windows I don't use WAMPserver any more). Then use Windows explorer to find this folder. Right click on it, select Properties and click on the Security tab. Click on the Edit... button. If you can't see a user named Everyone, you will have to click on the Add... button, type Everyone in the big text box and click OK. Now click on the Everyone user and then take a look at the list of checkboxes below. Click the Accept checkbox on the Full Control row (the topmost one). Click on OK, then again on OK.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Monday, 05 November 2012 04:02 CST

Virtually There
Thanks so much Nick!

Monday, 05 November 2012 04:02 CST

nicholas
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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