Enable Safari cache to fix WordPress photo upload

Feb 12, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: windrag

There has been some recent discussion here about Safari's cache, and some (myself included) have questioned the need for caching to be enabled at all. Well, I just ran across a task that seemingly won't work without caching enabled: uploading photos to a WordPress site.

I had been using Firefox for my blogging needs, but decided to try Safari again since I heard that some of the editing tools now worked in Safari as well (and I don't like having to launch Firefox just to update a blog). It was working fine on my girlfriend's new MBP, but I couldn't upload photos with my iBook. Then I remembered that I had locked the cache folder (~/Library » Caches » Safari). I unlocked it (Get Info » uncheck the Locked checkbox), and uploading worked fine.

I thought this hint might be helpful to others, as some third-party utilities (Safari Enhancer that I know of, maybe others) offer an option to disable Safari's cache.

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