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Yes we are having real difficulty with this plugin.

Lets say we have the picture winter.jpg in use on our website and we want to replace it with spring.jpg. This is what happens:

When we select the option to “just Replace the File”, the image is immediately changed in the Media Library, but if we open a post that had the image embedded in it, the image link is broken.

If we click the icon to insert the image into the post and select our newly edited image, as soon as we click the button to embed it in the post the original image (that we replaced) appears!

When we select the option to “replace the file, use file name and update links” the embedded image in the article is updated on the live site, but then as soon as we open the post to edit, the old image is there.

Mika – thank you soooo much for your post. I actually was exhausted and was out of commission yesterday after working through the night Sunday to find a work-around. Had to bail on the migration project and restore the previous version of the site.

I actually resolved the syntax error early on in the process. It was the wp-config.php file getting messed up during FTP. BINARY mode was the thing that worked – just on the wp-config file. Error went away immediately.

After that an entirely new problem became apparent. Links to individual posts and links to individual pages did not work. Everything resolved to the Home Page – not even the 404 error page.

All of the category-level links worked fine (although they included /blog/ which I do not like – and I planned to use a .htaccess redirect for inbound traffic missing the /blog/ until I had time to get rid of that). But what absolutely threw me was that none of the other links would work at all – everything ended up on the home page.

According to your codex link – it suggests that the database edits required are far more extensive than the few I had made – it suggests a full search and replace – but a manual one. There is a link to what is called a safe search and replace script – do you have any experience working with it?