Lost Images

the plugin “add from server” can take a directory full of image files and add them to the media library, but they might not line up with the URLs you have in the posts.

Hello Graham,
Do you still have access to the former blog site?

-Claudia

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Claudia Snell.

If you forgot to select the checkbox for importing attachments, you can use the Attachment Importer plugin – it`s oldie but goodie!

Once installed and activated, go to Tools->Import->Attachment Importer and select the xml file you previously used for importing into the new website. It might take a while to import all the files, though.

Thanks!

Claudia,
Yes my old site was graham-gmansfield.com/blog and now the site is Graham-mansfield.com.
Originally I used a product called Blogstomp to enter the content and the images directly.
When I copied the images to the new site under the wp-content/uploads I did it manually but they are not visible in the media library on the new site.
If you go to my website and the blog section you will see where the images are but with the ? which I assume means missing.

Graham

Sterndata,
Ok ill look at that thank you!

Graham

Deliciousthemes,
The problem I have is that I can’t locate the original xml file.
Is there any other way?

Graham

I hope you still have access to the old website.
With that in mind, download the entire wp-content/uploads/ folder via FTP, on your machine.

Afterwards, upload the inner folders from wp-content/uploads/ into your new website, at the same wp-content/uploads/ address.

I checked out your website and for example, on this post https://www.graham-mansfield.com/the-wedding-of-katie-calum-childe/ this image(and many others) is missing https://www.graham-mansfield.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-11_0008-1.jpg

So if you upload the image file from the previous website in the same wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ directory should do the trick!

Claudia,
Yes I have it all in a backup folder on my current site.

Graham

Deliciousthemes
I have done as you suggested however it’s still not working BUT it now shows as a broken link.
I assume that is because it is looking for :- https://www.graham-mansfield.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-11_0008-1.jpg whereas the link wouldn’t have the blog part in it would it (looking at your example above).
Do you know how I can amend the links?
Just to clarify what I have done is I have copied over all the years worth of upload data from my old site to the new site. So I have the same directly structure in the new site in the uploads directory that I did in the old site.
I looked in the media area of the consol but none of these images show up.

Graham

You`ll have to replace the https://www.graham-mansfield.com/blog/ values in your database with https://www.graham-mansfield.com/

I suggest you use the Better Search Replace plugin for that. Use the plugin to backup the current database. Perform a dry run first to see which values will be replaced. It should work quite well!

Ok great thank you. Will try later when I get back and let you know.
Thanks so much for your help.

Graham

Thank you Deliciousthemes its all working now.
Much obliged to all of you that helped.

Graham

Glad to hear it!

All the best!