which one do I need? media cleaner or media renamer
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I think if one of your plugins will work I probably need the pro version here is what I need to do:
1. do a scan and find the media entries that seem to have image files that don’t exist (but don’t do anything to them other than log them or list them so I can find the entries again in the media library).
2. i want to manually correct the filename and have the 2 database tables associated with the media entry corrected both for the filename and the meta info that define the thumbnails.
my problem: I imported part of the media library twice. On the second import wordpress appended a number value. But didn’t actually copy and rename the image file itself.
Result: physical image imported are named like so image.jpg along with all the thumbnails associated with each one like image-150×150.jpg but in the media library the image appears as a grey box as if the image is missing from the server. Checking the the database, I see data for that media entry that have all but the actual filename fields and meta fields display as images.jpg, but the fields which contain the filename path and the meta info on the thumbnails contain the -1 like this image-1.jpg image-1-150×150.jpg
I have thousands of images, most are ok, but some are “broken” like I described above. To compound the problem some legitimate images actually do have a -1 at the end of their name. So automating this fix is out of the question. I need to look at each one.
I want to turn off any automated renaming.. and just have it scan and then allow me to choose which media entries to replace the file name for. And I want the plugin to allow me to replace the
Which plugin do I need? Media rename or media cleaner or both?
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