Reset Database not working?

  • Resolved BigJonMX

    (@bigjonmx)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Tidying up a mess of a website, organised pictues into folders, deleted some, added some, etc. Used FTP to make sure online uploads folder was correct/sync’d.

    used your Deactivate folders, active reset, reset db, deactivate reset, active Media Folders…
    But it displays a lot of the OLD information.

    i tried Sync on every folder.
    i tried Regenerate Thumbs.

    it still shows a lot of outdated info…

    Please advise.

    well, REgen Thumbs was a mistake – server timed out making dozens of thumbs *per image*. So killed all that!
    Now i’m going to delete ALL images via FTP, and will reset DB again…

    result: Media Library *still* shows lots of images… i expected ‘reset’ to clean out, or sync, db to image folder.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by BigJonMX.
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  • Thread Starter BigJonMX

    (@bigjonmx)

    update:
    i used FTP to delete ALL files and folders in ‘uploads’.
    i used your DB Reset to reset db.

    i used an extra plugin called Media Cleaner by Jordy Meow – this found numerous image references, that it deleted.

    i then went to media library, saw that there were *still* a lot of images, selected all images, and deleted them.

    So my WP is empty of images, and references to images, yes ??????????????

    Now i Activate Media Library Folders… and…

    ALL the old folders are still there !!!!!!!!!!!!!! and one even has some images (that were in a different folder before).

    HAS this plugin made a mess of everything ?????????

    Thread Starter BigJonMX

    (@bigjonmx)

    update: i’ve deleted all i can, i’ve reset DB a few times, repeated again and again and it seems i’ve got rid of everything.

    Now i upload a few images, activate MediaFolders, click on Sync, and…

    and i some OLD images ?!?!?!?!?!?! some new images have same name as old images, but i see the old ones. Caching maybe, lets delete caches, and force fresh everything…

    Thread Starter BigJonMX

    (@bigjonmx)

    update: after cleaning cache, it all looks ok.
    i’ve re-uploaded my images.
    i’m currently going through each folder, doing a ‘sync’

    was all this due to cache ?????????
    what was the original problem… my head hurts… more tomorrow…

    Hi
    Your problems where partly caused by caching.
    If you remove images with ftp or an external tool, then MLF does not know that!
    With MLF installed you should always use MLF to delete and add images.
    After using an external tool/plugin you need to reset the database with MLF
    Otherwise you will see old links within MLF.
    Unfortunately not all plugins do clean up properly, so it is possible to get links to non existing images.
    If you use a caching plugin, then you need to clear the cache before resetting with MLF
    Reading your last post, it now seems to work, so have fun with MLF!

    Thread Starter BigJonMX

    (@bigjonmx)

    Thanks for the reply,
    i think it was caching causing my problems. There was a wordpress plugin adding caching, there was my browser adding caching, and even my isp i think adds caching. Anyways, its all sorted now.

    Hi

    Thanks for letting me know.
    Have fun with the plugin
    Regards,
    Peter

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