I have been using type="text" in the cms editable in order for the file name to be entered then the picture will be loaded from /images folder. By adding <cms:show (text "name") /> to the path of the image. works fine. nut want to start using he type="image".

A little confused with the uploads folder. how does the user upload a file from there PC. To get them to dump images into uploads folder on the server seems like a headache.

Other option for me to make better use of this feature is to change the path to the /images folder. So i can quickly load the images from there. Is there any security or reasons why this should not be done?

what was the proposed idea behind the uploads folder?

ok sorry makes sense. its because im getting an error saying can not write to uploads folder, i assumed it was searching in there. but its where it will dump the file.

any idea why i get the message "can not write to upload folder?

Is it permission settings for the folder. im on linux, using apache.

[KK]

It indeed appears to be a permission issue.
Please try using 755, then 766 and finally 777 as the permissions.
If none work, please contact your host to set the correct permissions required for uploading.

Ok great all done

sudo find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

thanks KK