Title: Broken WordPress Media Library
Last modified: February 6, 2020

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# Broken WordPress Media Library

 *  [vinmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinmi/)
 * (@vinmi)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpress-media-library/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * My objective from the beginning was moving my website to a new host and to a 
   clean WordPress Installation
 * I had a little bit of trouble moving my website since I did a few wrong steps
   in the way, basically, the way I ended up moving my website was the following:
   I had a backup of the database and the “Uploads” folder because that’s all I 
   thought I needed to keep the content, and later on, eventually, I would have 
   moved any plugin content I wanted to keep.
 * I first moved all the 20.000 photos from the old upload folder to the new one
   and then I imported the database, I did a few corrections to the links and all
   seemed fine until I checked the media library and everything was blanked out,
   then I noticed all the URL’s of the images had the month and date on it (yyyy/
   mm) but in the actual “Uploads” folder I just had the folders for the last 2 
   years, but the folders between 2012 and 2017 doesn’t exist, I thought then that
   could have been a problem with the file transfer, but when I checked the old 
   server, those folders weren’t there neither, so pretty much all of those 20.000
   photos are on the uploads folder and not in sub-folders.
 * I manage to make the photos show up in the posts just getting the links to remove
   the year and month, but in the Media Library all the files still blank and showing
   the links to the Year/Month folders.
 * With that said, I thought one of those media organizer’s plugin could sort this
   problem out, but all that the plugin does is rescan the files and put them all
   as being from this year. So now I’m pretty much hopeless because I have no idea
   of how I’ll be able to get the files back in place according to their original
   date. Any one had this issue before?
 * Thanks in advance for the help.
 * Thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbroken-wordpress-media-library%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * (@a2hostingrj)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpress-media-library/#post-12443714)
 * It was a bad migration. Usually once you replace the url in the database, everything
   starts working, even the media library.

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 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)
 * [media library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-library/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpress-media-library/#post-12443714)
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