Help me to resolved this xml sitemap problem

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Hi warriors i am using worpdress for my blog and today when i checked that all my site is running good or not then suddenly i saw one problem in the xml sitemap. It showing a msg "There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable" so did not understaing it. i checked in FTP as per the guidance provided by wordpress support but fail to find such file. So could you please help me on this issue please/ could give some step by step instructions as how to do this?

This is what they are saying to do if i want to resolve this issue but i don't how to do this.

""The sitemap files could not be written!

Make sure that the files "sitemap.xml" and / or "sitemap.xml.gz" are writable. You have two options to ensure this:

* Make your blog root writable
You can make your whole blog root folder writable and the plugin will create the files for you. You can do this by using a FTP program and setting CHMOD to 755 or 777 to your web-root folder. This folder is often named "htdocs", "html", "public" or "httpdocs".
* Create the sitemap files and make them writable
If you can't make your blog root folder writable or don't want to do so, you can create two new files, name them "sitemap.xml" and "sitemap.xml.gz", upload them to your blog root and use a FTP program to apply CHMOD 755 or 777 to them. To create these files, simply open Notepad, click on "File > Save As", choose "Filetype: All File" and enter "sitemap.xml" as the name. Repeat this step for "sitemap.xml.gz".
* More information about changing file permissions
Please look at the WordPress Codex or this toturial to get step by step advices for your FTP program or check the manual.""


So anybody help me on this with step by step instructions as where i could find the above files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cyrus
    sitemap.xml must be in main directory of site. Locate it and set permissions to 777.
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  • Profile picture of the author nvs74191
    FTP to your site
    Enter the root directory - public_html
    Look for the files sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz
    Right click on the files and make the file permissions 777
    You are done. Sitemap will create and ping google etc.
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      ... and if the files are not already there create blank files with the file permissions as suggested above.
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    • Profile picture of the author jamesjoin
      Originally Posted by nvs74191 View Post

      FTP to your site
      Enter the root directory - public_html
      Look for the files sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz
      Right click on the files and make the file permissions 777
      You are done. Sitemap will create and ping google etc.
      i did the same things what above told to do but the problem is still there. What i did is set the sitmap.xml to 755 and other one sitemap.xml.gz to 755 which is a zip file. So i have to wait for some time to see the result?
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