I'm sorry for such a noob q, but I can't find the solution anywhere and have searched for hours on the forum.

When I go to create a new directory it tells me cannot write to Base Directory please check permissions.

As far as I understand "Serendipity" is my base directory and I can't find anything ...

Ok, well I am having the same issue and while it might seem obvious to a "core developer" it's not to a standard person like me.

As far as I can tell .empty is an invisible file, and even when viewing invisible files it does not exist anywhere in my site.

Further info generated by the error says ...