file permissions settings upon upgrade changed

[llegrand]

Hello Admins,  in trying to trace down several of my issues after upgrade it occurred to me that perhaps some of my file settings had changed when I upgraded from .7  to .8.  And they did. Yes,  I am a little slow in thinking of this 
Upgrade from .7  to .8 on my server sets all those files back to 755.

So am wondering if this may be the cause of several issues with others,  I am still testing on mine, but so far so good.
Install instructions say  to make sure the following folders and files are writable
chmod 0777 system/config.php
chmod 0777 system/
chmod 0777 system/cache/
chmod 0777 system/logs/
chmod 0777 image/
chmod 0777 image/thumbnails/
chmod 0777 download/
chmod 0777 extensions/
chmod 0777 admin/system/backup/
Lee

[gordontaylor]

Did that, still have cloning error issue as before, I was hoping that would do it!

[eCommerce Core]

You can use FTP credentials for upgrade to avoid changing directories of riles permission changes.