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I'm running 4.2 on Drupal. This is an updated site, could be that it has to do with that. Whenever I upload a file (for instance a contact image, or an attachment to a mailing, or basically any binary file) it gets dumped into the root of the drupal site, and not moved into the appropriate folders under sites/default/files/civicrm/*

Permissions on those directories are fine, the www-data user can write to them, and the URL's seem to be correct when I look at them in the admin panel.

Anybody an idea or seen this before?

Found the error; did a clean installation of CiviCRM 4.2 (to compare databases) and it turned out that my upgraded install was somehow missing a few records in the civicrm_setting table. The structure of the table was correct, but it was missing the records for "uploadDir" "imageUploadDir" and "customFileUploadDir". So no matter how many times I tried to set those through the admin interface, it simply had nowhere to store them.

Probably an artefact of our long upgrade path (from 3.3.0 on Joomla to 4.2 on Drupal, with a few intermediates), but it would have been helpful if a clear error message would have come out. Oh well, it works now.