Do not follow symlinks and do not recover images

  • Somehow plugin can not scan symlink.

    I imported two quite a big wordpress sites (10 years of posts). These sites have different domains and post language but shares images (580M) via symlink. All old images are visible in new installation (apache2 follows symlinks) and symlinks are working for all users (owner, root, www-data). I put symlink in wp-content/upload/2022/11 folder and everything is fine…. only not for worpress and this media library plugin- images are invisible. If I copy files directly, magically your plugin can see them. It will be additional 1G of storage?? No way.

    The only good news is that sites are working and showing old images (the symlink mimics old site structure and post have “/stuff/images/file.gif” inside.

    And how about new posts? Duplicate all images?

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  • Thread Starter Levas

    (@levas)

    Also, recovered media’s timestamp is “NOW”. This make big mess in the library. Any ideas about looking to the folder structure? “2022”, “11” is very intuitive names to describe the date of file upload.

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