topic Re: 'failed to create directory for file storage', owned by root in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192053#M145183 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have the same problem. How I can fix it?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:16:06 GMT vurquia 2014-04-05T22:16:06Z 'failed to create directory for file storage', owned by root https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192052#M145182 I've got alfresco 3 B release installed, and am seeing some errors like this:A system error happened during the operation: Failed to create directory for file storage:/var/lib/alfresco/alf_data/contentstore/2008/12/8/15/18I look at the user alfresco is running as:$ ps aux | grep [a]lfrescoalfresco&nbsp; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:42:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192052#M145182 greenmoss 2008-12-18T17:42:50Z Re: 'failed to create directory for file storage', owned by root https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192053#M145183 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have the same problem. How I can fix it?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:16:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192053#M145183 vurquia 2014-04-05T22:16:06Z Re: 'failed to create directory for file storage', owned by root https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192054#M145184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You need to be careful how you start (or restart) the services. I suspect at boot time the service is started to run under the user alfresco, if you restart the service without restarting the whole machine then it will run as whatever you were logged in as at the time of the restart unless you do a su.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes, you can manually chown -R alfresco:alfresco</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:46:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/failed-to-create-directory-for-file-storage-owned-by-root/m-p/192054#M145184 rjohnson 2014-04-06T22:46:38Z