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It broke my blog, too. It caused a big ole Warning error message to appear across the front/top of the blog saying there was no such file or directory on line 50. I could no longer access my dashboard at all so I called my host company and they deleted Akismet and reinstalled it from a previous backup they had on file.

It may have been installed manually by the developer I hired a few years ago to move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Thanks again!

Arnee, I deactivated the plugin until my tech person could look at it. He said it was caused by: “security settings in your blog/hosting wouldn’t allow the plugin to remove the old sitemap files from the directory.” So he deleted the plugin and added it back and all is well now. Just passing this along in case it helps someone else.

The fix that finally worked for me was deleting all the missing images from the Media library (thanks lyricalbiz) and running the update. It didn’t seem to work until I deleted all the missing images from the library. Out of 850 thumbnails, it fixed all but 175. Those I had to fix one-by-one. I pray the next WP update that comes along doesn’t cause this again. Any way to predict if this will happen again?
Thanks so much for everyone’s help!

Same here. I’m in need of an update for this plug-in…don’t dare touch any code. Hope one is coming soon. Thx