error with ownership "The specified file temporary://filelo2Fkx could not be copied, because the destination directory is not properly configured. This may be caused by a problem with file or directory permissions. More information is available in the system log."

ANYWAY what I am getting is everything minus theme and all images but strangely my multi site folders in root drupal sites folder are all working fine.

In the end I solved it by putting the root subfolder in sites along with other multi-sites. No amount of changing permissions or ownership or clean install or dropping and recreating database worked until then...which is very odd because it used to before I took the site down.
You can try and change the permission of the folder 'sites/all/files' to give it 777 permission in your drupal installation and see if this works.