Folder permissions, owner/groups I am using the FileField Sources module 

One of the features is that it allows you to transfer images from a URL to your drupal folder directly, instead of having to save the image on your computer and then selecting it for upload. 

The problem I am having is that it won't let me transfer the file. 


  http://anywebsite.com/picture.jpg could not be copied, because the
  destination directory is not properly configured. The folder
  permission is set to 775, as it should be.


I think it has something to do with the Owner/Group of Ubuntu.
In such cases, Drupal first downloads the image to the temporary directory and then moves it to the public directory. Go to admin/config/media/file-system. Make sure that both temporary and public directories are defined and both are writeable by the web server. The easiest way to do this is to make the web server user the owner of the directory. The command is:

sudo chown -R www-data &lt;directory&gt;


where www-data is the web server user. Depending on your OS and web server, the user could be apache2 or httpd as well.