Media gallery – all thumbs & images broken

  • [Wordpress 3.5.1]

    Recently, I moved to a new hosting. I uploaded the database and FTP files.

    The images are located at “/wp-content/uploads/”

    When I visit any page in the website, the images don’t exist. They are black squares.

    I clicked the image and chose “view image” A wordpress page says not found.

    The missing image is named “image-185×104.jpg”

    So I grabbed the image name from the URL, and searched the “/wp-content/uploads/” folder in FTP. The image doesn’t exist, but I can see 4 or 5 images with the same name except for the width and height variations.

    image-36×36.jpg
    image-115×90.jpg
    image-180×100.jpg
    image-620×250.jpg
    image-630×275.jpg

    I looked around other pages, and made similar findings. The images do not exist in the FTP, however image variations of different sizes do exist.

    I start to wonder if this was a WordPress patch issue, or if there is a fix for this.

    When I go to the Gallery within any page WYSYWYG admin console the gallery thumbnails show as blank images.

    I was told the database got corrupted, but then why are the images missing also in the FTP? I think there is something else going on here.

    Another page. The missing image is

    stone-1024×621.jpg

    When I go to the FTP, the image doesn’t exist.

    However I found these exist:

    stone-36×36.jpg
    stone-115×90.jpg
    stone-180×100.jpg
    stone-620×250.jpg
    stone-630×275.jpg

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  • Do you still have access to the old FTP?

    Thread Starter Medievaldragon

    (@medievaldragon)

    I don’t have access there no more.

    Any suggestions how to fix this? or how to force wordpress media to repopulate?

    I think this should be in the ToDo list for future patches. A way to refresh and repopulate from the highest image resolution you already have in FTP.

    Otherwise a way to auto-save a copy of the image database. If the main database gets corrupted, a button to restore the database. Sort of like restore point works in Windows 7.

    Looks like there are 40,000 images in the “/wp-content/uploads/” folder. It won’t be fun finding and matching each image to repost them in each page manually.

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