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Ok Here's tonights update.
Deactivated module and then uninstalled it.
Deleted installation - could not delete the uploads folder, had to move this out of the way.
Reinstalled without errors.
chmod 0777 on uploads folder 3 times
Gave module admin and access rights to test group.
Created edito all apparently successful but no image saved to uploads folder.
Manually ftp'd image to uploads folder and this was available to select and works.
Tried changing the chmod value to other than 0777 but received errors about unable to write to directory when uploading.
Noticed that in displayed error message everything has double \\ ie c:\\windows\\desktop\image1.jpg
tried uploading large pdf file instead of picture, this takes time as though it was actually uploading, still nothing in the uploads directory.
tried adding trailing slash although settings text advises against - this one didn't work
finally created my own directory under images, chmod 777, still no luck. tried this again in root but still no image appearing on server.
any ideas???