WordPress update problem

[Sander k]

With a WordPress site from a client I have an update problem. I can download and install new plugins throught WP without any problems. But when I want to update a plugin that is already installed it can't delete several files and thereby can't perform the update. I have that same problem with the core. Is there a wrong CHMOD some where or what can be the problem?

 

[Sander k]

Fixed the plugin issue by re-installing them.

Now I still have the core problem.

 

[Genesis]

I've heard so many people battling with this problem. Mostly I've heard that it is better to install a new version fresh, and only import the contents of the Website, i.e. ensure that a new software is not loaded over a previous version software.

 

[Sander k]

You mean with a mysql dumb?

I could do the past updates, but for what ever reason it doesn't update to 3.6.

 

[Genesis]

True. If you Google it however, you'll notice how many bugs there are. They haven't perfected it yet. I guess they still have to find a perfect place where plug-ins and main software and databases are in perfect sync so that when the one is upgraded, all the other talk in the same language.

 

[Sander k]

I am trying to update from 3.5.2 Dutch to 3.6. Dutch, but thats impossible!

 

[Genesis]

Would probably be hard work, but have you thought about removing everything, then installing 3.6 fresh. And then upload/import the data files? Install the plug-ins from scratch? I also read somewhere not to use an auto installer like Softaculous for the updating.