media duplication bug

By duplicated, do you mean that although each image appears once in the media library but when you check the wp-uploads folder using FTP, you see multiple versions of each image at different sizes? If so, that’s not a bug it’s meant to do that.

Or do you mean that when you go to Dashboard > Media > Library you actually see multiple images, with a number appended to the original file name?

thanks for your interest, Jason.

by duplicating i mean exactly your second hypothesis: multiple images with, when i look at the file, a series of “1-1-1-1-1” appended to the name.

it seems that the actual image files are not concerned – it’s just started to do that sometime between November 14 December 18, and keeps doing it despite my repeated deletions… yesterday i suppressed all irrelevant pictures and now i’m up to 63 self generated clones covering 4 original pictures. pictures previous to December are not subject to this proliferation.

any idea what’s at work here?

Never known this happen before.

First rule out user error – seems unlikely you’d have accidentally dragged some of these images to upload multiple times and they wouldn’t be numbered like that.

Are you using any plugins related to uploaded images? Image management? Or which use Featured Images?

yep – user error ruled out.

Featured Images ? well, my theme, Simplicimente, uses featured images for articles. and i haven’t updated it for a while since even with child inheritance i had to modify some of the original files to get the results i wanted.

maybe it finds itself out of step with the recent WP updates?

this is the site : https://www.pierrelavoie.fr

WordPress updates are rarely the cause of problems like this.

The Featured Images feature itself wouldn’t cause this problem, I was just fishing to find out if you had any image related plugins.

It’s not a copy and paste on the server, that wouldn’t add the 1s in that way.

Sorry, stuck. Anyone else here got a suggestion?

thanks for having looked into it.

i’ve narrowed it down to this: each time i update the content of a page or article, all the included pictures (not the videos) are duplicated.

maybe a bug in the Semplicemente theme?

Easily tested, temporarily switch to a different theme and update a page to see if it still happens.

If problem persists, deactivate plugins and try again.

thanks. will try. was hoping i wasn’t the only one…