Title: All images missing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# All images missing

 *  [tara.wiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarawiley/)
 * (@tarawiley)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/)
 * I made a new website and uploaded my backup posts from my old site. Now all of
   the images are missing. My library is just a big gallery of white squares and
   all my posts are missing their images. As a photographer this is obviously a 
   huge problem for me. How can I fix this??

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706217)
 * Did you take all photos from your old site (located in the **/wp-content/uploads**
   directory) and moved those to the new site?
 *  Thread Starter [tara.wiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarawiley/)
 * (@tarawiley)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706241)
 * I uploaded the entire zip file that I had backed up
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706246)
 * As [@senff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/) eluded to, double check
   all images are in the right directory, and that this directory is at the right
   location.
 *  Thread Starter [tara.wiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarawiley/)
 * (@tarawiley)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706317)
 * Please forgive me…I’m a bit of an idiot about these things. How would I check
   that? What folder would they be in?
 *  wp_commentmeta
    wp_comments – wp_links wp_options wp_postmeta wp_posts wp_terms
   wp_term_relationships wp_term_taxonomy- wp_usermeta – wp_users
 *  Thread Starter [tara.wiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarawiley/)
 * (@tarawiley)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706322)
 * [@senff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/) WordPress sent me a backup
   each month which I assume should have all those photos in it? The site crashed
   so I didnt choose to make a new site. I just lost my content and used the back
   up to import my blogs. Would they not back up all my images with that??
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706326)
 * All your uploaded media (photos, PDFs, etc.) should be in the directory **/wp-
   content/uploads**. Whether they were present in the .ZIP file, I don’t know.
 * Is the backup a .ZIP file with all the files? What about the database, how was
   that backed up and how did you import that?
 * To clarify: uploading a .ZIP file should not re-import your blog posts; these
   are located in the _database_ and not in any files.
 * Can you share a link to your site?
 *  Thread Starter [tara.wiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarawiley/)
 * (@tarawiley)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706332)
 * Well….looking at it I guess I only have a backup of my database and its not actually
   my files. 🙁

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-images-missing/#post-4706332)
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