Packages have disappeared from browse packages

[Illori]

do you have a temp folder and a backup folder in the Packages folder? if not create them [both in lower case].

[ViewFromTheBoundary]

Thanks Illori, that was the issue, I had no temp folder

[margarett]

It can still be an ownership problem. SMF needs to create a "temp" folder inside Packages for the install/uninstall operations and, when it can't, that error is triggered.
Try to create that folder yourself, see if that helps

[Steve]

Are you trying to confuse me, Bruno (it's not hard to do)? Isn't that what Illori said and what the OP did? (I'm trying to follow along so I learn something. )

[margarett]

Hmmm you're right. I missed those posts
Damn age

Yet my point remains: SMF should be able to create that folder itself so there's something wrong with permissions/ownership