So, from a script running in `/home/a-spdb/www/sofa`:

* `is_dir("/home/a-spdb/www/sofa/uploads")` //returns true
* `is_dir("/home/a-spdb/www/sofa/uploads/talent")` //returns false

sshing into the server, the 'talent' folder clearly exists:

```
bash-3.00$ pwd
/home/a-spdb/www/sofa/uploads
bash-3.00$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwsr-x+  2 myusername  someusergroup      96 Nov 15 00:50 talent

```

I've tried deleting the talent folder and recreating it (just `mkdir talent`), but I still can't get is\_dir to accept that it is a directory. Any idea why?