Copy page error

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Symptoms

When copying a page in confluence, an error is displayed in the browser and the page is not copied.

The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:

1 2 3 4 5 Cause java.lang.RuntimeException: Error creating temp file in folder: /opt/confluence-home/attachments/ver003/199/206/4456449/182/184/6684682/6881282 at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.FileSystemAttachmentDataDao.writeStreamToFile(FileSystemAttachmentDataDao.java:199) caused by: java.io.IOException: No such file or directory at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)

Cause

The system account running Confluence does not possess the proper permissions to write to the confluence.home directory.

Resolution

Updated on April 8, 2025

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