Import external media library attachments broke all links

  • I’ve attempted to import external media library attachments but what ended up happening is that it tried to import actual links (not images). Thus it broke nearly every single external link I have on my site. Now I have thousands of document type media boxes within my media library and thousands of broken links all throughout my site. It’s actually become quite the issue and my rank on Google has dropped a ton.

    Doesn’t sound like there’s a fix for this once it’s been done but was wondering if anyone else ran across this issue.

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  • Yes. I’m restoring from backup.

    Sorry to re-animate this dead thread, but 2 things that I experienced that could cause this.

    In my install, for some reason, there was nothing in the CDN config field for “File types to import:” (under Performance > CDN > Advanced).

    Having nothing in this field did not result in nothing being imported, it resulted in everything being imported. Ouch.

    Stopped this after a few minutes of reading the import log and watching my uploads folders being populated with all sorts of dross. Restored from backup, tried again.

    Put the following in the “File types to import:” box:

    *.gif;*.jpg;*.png;

    Note, the trailing semi-colon. Started the import and my site got spanked all over gain, importing everything, relevant or not. Looks like a string split on ; is done, and the trailing semi-colon returns a blank for the last element, which once again results in a wildcard ‘import everything’.

    Suggestion to dev – if one of the filters entered in here is a blank, not an explicit * wildcard, don’t use it! This would at least fail on the side of caution, as opposed to the current greedy match when no value is supplied. Given the catastrophic consequences of an incorrect import of simple external a tags, some caution is required, no?

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