Media Library – Missing Images

  • Hi there:

    After infection of malware on the blog I had to reinstall wordpress, theme, the plugin … a roll ??

    Anyway, I used an old backup to reinstall the contents of the blog, but although everything seemed to run smoothly I found one at a time to try to modify an old article today:

    To edit the page loads perfectly editing but inside the edit box (which should be the text) is blank and does not react when I try to click on it to write.

    This happens in “Visual” mode, but if I click on the “Text” tab perfectly see the text with its codec included.

    Text mode work properly, then I thought it might be due to the images, so I went to the Multimedia Library and surprise! the images prior to the reinstallation were not there; only appeared the corresponding to the last post I had just written.

    I found that the images were in the “uploads” folder (supposed to be yes, since the blog showed them without problems) and were not damaged, but the permissions were not correct, so I proceeded to change the folders permissions to 755 and 644 for files.

    The fact is that, after returning to reinstall the wp, update the database, optimize it and try to repair it, I still can not edit old post in Visual mode and I can`t view the old images in the Library (by the way, has disarmed all thumbnails).

    Any idea how to fix the media library before I cut my veins?

    Thank you,
    Victor.

    (Sorry for my english)

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  • Your English is superb! But I have the same issue except without the malware (2 years ago I had a malware issue). I did the file permissions too and it changed nothing. I hope someone reads your post as I believe I will find the solutions for my site as well. I am two minutes from trashing it and rebuilding the whole bloody site. I wonder if the WordPress update last week did this. But I reinstalled it too to no avail.

    Can we just release another update that doesn’t muck with all my damn photos?!?! I’m not a bloody programmer and just want my site to look the way it did before the damn 4.4.2 update that trashed all my pictures!!

    Grrrr

    Mark Schulz

    BroadRippleInc

    (@broadrippleunlimited)

    I too am having this issue on multiple sites after either migrating, or restoring from backups. My research has suggested that this is a newer aspect of WordPress since perhaps 3.5. I would love to find a solution to this too (tried file permissions, different backups, Search and Replace), nothing makes the images live again.

    Personally, the images are working on the front end of my site about 50% of the time, and also are on the server. If you go to the image location, they are there, but the Media Library on the other hand, no go whatsoever.

    bigzepfan

    (@bigzepfan)

    I had this issue. My host godaddy confirmed that some WP .htacess files were temporarily changed in one of the updates and in some instances the script did NOT change it back to the original settings.

    Also, I migrated some sites and had this issue on one of the sites. It had nothing to do with permissions on the individual files. It was ALL about the .htaccess file.

    Look in your root WordPress folder for the .htaccess file. and make sure it is EXACTLY like this below. I don’t know if this will work for you but I just changed the file to exactly the syntax below on all 5 of my WordPress sites and it worked perfectly. GOOD LUCK!

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    coleverria

    (@coleverria)

    bigzepfan, that did the trick for me. i had already spent an hour trying to figure this out. i think you probably saved me another 5 or so hours.

    i can’t thank you enough!

    It happened today again to my site dwizzledye.com. I think woo commerce is the culprit, but I don’t have time nor do I care enough to check, I just am glad I have the fix! I’m only posting to show the dates…

    Glad it cut off some of your “BS” time, lol.

    Thanks!

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