Hello All,

We are setting up profiles on our site for bloggers to make posts. We want them to upload to specific folders using the "browse server" option in the frontend. Unfortunately, when I click on this option, all of the icons for folders and images have a lock on them. I wouldn't mind this as long as I could still upload images, but I can't. All of the buttons are grayed out except for the info, about this software, sort, and icons view buttons.

(See attached image)

I tried changing the permissions to some folders to 777, but it didn't do anything so I put them back. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I only found one thread with this same issue, but of course the OP didn't reply beyond his first post.

I'm using Joomla! v2.5.8 and k2 v2.6.2.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Any news on this? I am having the same issue.

I ended up finding out that this was intentional and had to do with security reasons. We ended up telling our bloggers to stay away from the image tab, and use the image icon in the JCE editor we installed.

Can't remember how well that actually worked though because the bloggers kept copying and pasting their drafts from MS Word into the editor (which retained formatting for each sentence as a span tag), so we ended up needing to create them all in the back-end anyway.

Good luck.

Is this security measure put in place by the K2 component?

Yes I'm pretty sure it was/is.