"EACCES: permission denied, copyfile" when uploading images after migrating images

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hi, I created a blog on digital ocean and migrated content and images.
before uploading images.zip I renamed the existing folders that otherwise would have been overwritten, and then moved the files in the correct folders.

now I can’t upload images anymore because of EACCES: permission denied.

I did everything as root. I tried to solve with

chown ghost-mgr:ghost-mgr /var/www/ghost/.ghost-cli
chown ghost-mgr:ghost-mgr /var/www/ghost/config.production.json
sudo chown ghost-mgr:ghost-mgr /var/www/ghost/content/images/

but I was not able to solve, and I am now wondering I did something not good.

anyone can help here?

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Same issue. I also see it if I try and download a new theme, change the favicon, etc.

I have see the EACCES error as well as a EPERM: operation not permitted, copyfile ‘/tmp/6bd0f1eb65144d4a5e3b517e16687c2c_processed’ → ‘/var/lib/ghost/content/images/2021/09/filename.png’ depending on which of the tasks above I am doing.

I am using the docker images latest. I also tried using the two previous builds and same issue. I even tried the latest and a brand new fresh install (didn’t copy over my images or import my JSON) and I still see this error setting the favicon. It creates the 2021/09 folder directory in the images folder so it has write permissions to do that.

Connecting to the docker container I see everything is owned by the node user in my case (which the container seems to use). As node, I can write files to /tmp and copy them to the images and images/2021/09 directory just fine.

If I install a theme, I see a folder created in /tmp but nothing is inside it. t also creates a folder in the themes collection but nothing is inside it.

Last resort, I also tried doing a recursive chmod 777 and no change.

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I gave up on getting this to work and installed an S3 plugin.

I moved all my old blog images to S3 and now all new images will also upload to S3

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Ran into that EACCESS error too when trying to upload images, after uploading my content folder on a new install, but did seem to get it resolved.
When I ran ghost doctor, it told me these:

1) Checking if logged in user is directory owner

Message: Your user does not own the directory /var/www/ghost and is also not a member of the owning group.
You must either log in with the user that owns the directory or add your user to the owning group.
Help: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/#create-a-new-user

Create a new user

2) Checking current folder permissions

Message: The directory /var/www/ghost is not writable by your user. You must grant write access and try again.
Help: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/#create-a-directory

Create a directory

3) Checking content folder ownership

Message: Your installation folder contains some directories or files with incorrect permissions:
[list]
Run sudo chown -R ghost:ghost ./content and try again.

Doing those seems to have resolved it for me.

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I ended up finding I totally ignore the password :frowning: