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1. joaquin_win
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Is there a way to have my old uploaded files available somewhere in the media libray.

2. electrolund
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'd like to know this as well. Maybe some importer will be available soon...

3. alesh
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Same here...

4. technabob
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Same question here. I've got thousands of images in the "old school" format, and it would be nice to have them in the new gallery setup.

5. jokkesvin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Same issue. Here's an example:

   I have a lot of images in the root of the Uploads folder, but only images that are inside the new upload structure: wp-content/uploads/2008/current month will appear in the Media Library. Darn :(

   I tried to manually create a folder for 2006 and a subfolder for january (01). Then via Dreamweaver I uploaded an image, but it didn't show up in Media Library.

   What to do? I would really love to clean up the root of my uploads folder.

   Help.

6. jokkesvin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Relevant posts:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164409?replies=9
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-from-server/

7. electrolund
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   jokkesvin, did that plugin work for you?

8. jokkesvin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   electrolund - Not the way I wanted it too. You can't put a custom time & date stamps on the images you upload through the Add From Server plug-in. Not from what I know though.

   It's just important for me, that the old images I put into the new folder structure, can have their original time & date, so they won't appear as newly uploaded, if you know what I mean.

9. electrolund
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Totally. Maybe the author will update soon.

10. jokkesvin
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Surely this must be fixed somehow. There must be a lot of people with this issue and the desire to clean up the root of the content folder.

11. jokkesvin
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Still not fixed?

12. jokkesvin
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I just manually placed all the old uploads in a custom folder: wp-content/uploads/uncategorized and went through all the post to correct the links. Repetitive work, but now my wp-content folder is nice and clean...

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