patricking

believe me, I totally understand. thanks for the candid response.

hi—I’ve verified that the problem is actually being caused by WooCommerce itself. I verified this by

1) exporting the products as a csv from the live site (where variants’ downloads are being correctly found by WooCommerce) and then

2) attempting to import the CSV into the mirrored version on my laptop, checking “do not import” for every field except the file download name and file location.

the WooCommerce importer gave me a response of “The downloadable file (downloadable file) cannot be used as it does not exist on the server.”

as a refresher, the downloadables do not exist on my laptop, but this never mattered before, but apparently now does.

this means that WooCommerce now silently fails to correctly copy downloadable product variants if the file structure on both volumes is not exactly the same, and strips variant download locations from the product, without warning, when an actual downloadable file cannot be reached upon install on a new volume. this is new behavior.

hi—this same thing happened to me; I had two products on a scheduled sale which did not stop displaying as sale products.

the pricing display and addition of normally-priced items DID revert back to normal state, but the sale bug continued to appear at top left of the product images.

both affected products had price variants.

to fix the display issue, I had to go into one of the variants, add a sale price, then save. then go back into the variant, delete the sale price, and save again. this cleared out the sale bug display.

that’s actually what I thought you’d say but was exploring options. thanks much for getting back so quickly.