Title: Existing files Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Existing files * Resolved [Heliotropen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heliotropen/) * (@heliotropen) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/) * Hi there… * I have moved a site from one host to another… * The image files sadly contains danish letters æøå – and somehow this has caused those images with those letters not to show (to break) … * When I copy the link from the actual image it looks like this: wp-content/uploads/ 2016/03/sm%C3%A5b%C3%B8rn-no.9.jpg * Where it orginally looked like this: wp-content/uploads/2016/03/småbørn-no.9. jpg * There is hundreds of images so manually fixing it will be impossible… * is it somehow possible to make your plugin do it’s thing on all the allready existing media files? 🙂 * Thank you so much in advance… * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-image-filenames/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-image-filenames/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Contributor [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/) * (@gesen) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-7447693) * Hi! * Well that sucks. Some hosts seem to have a problem with Danish/Swedish/others special characters. * Unfortunately, this plugin does not work on existing media files. I would recommend you get in touch with your host to explain your problem. Maybe they know about this and can help you out. * Thread Starter [Heliotropen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heliotropen/) * (@heliotropen) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-7447695) * Yeah it really sucks …. * The host can’t help me out … I need to convert the special letters in the filenames into normal characters… * I really hoped your plugin could help … 🙂 * The horror of having to try and replace 3000 images … * [rdelia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdelia/) * (@rdelia) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-8327410) * Hi Gesen, * thank you for your plugin, it works like a charm! * I stumbled upon a problem with Safari browser not supporting URLS containing diacritics. See [https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4381117?tstart=0](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4381117?tstart=0) * I had just a dozen image files names containing accented letters like àéì on a WordPress site of mine. It appeared to me that deleting and re-uploading the images was fastest way to solve my problem. * Your plugin now is preventing future problems with file names on that site, but now I wondered: “what if I had 1000s already-uploaded images to rename?” * I didn’t found yet any WordPress plugin sanitizing media files names which were already uploaded on the server. * If you’ll ever consider adding such feature to your plugin, I know it would be a huge work to do on your part, but It would be literally of massive help to many users. * For the moment, thank you for your plugin and keep up with your great work! * Plugin Contributor [Emil Gustafsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesen/) * (@gesen) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-8336011) * Thanks for the love, [@rdelia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdelia/)! * Such a feature would be great and I’ve wished the plugin had that feature a couple of times. On the other hand, it’s a bit complicated and would require a lot of work. But hey, nothing is impossible so when I find the time I will start digging into this. * [unocoma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unocoma/) * (@unocoma) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-8911300) * Agree with [@rdelia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdelia/)! * I’m also want to remove accents from my all media files uploaded, so let’s go Gesen, it would be great!! * Cheers! Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Existing files’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/clean-image-filenames/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1001365) * [Clean Image Filenames](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-image-filenames/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-image-filenames/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clean-image-filenames/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clean-image-filenames/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clean-image-filenames/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clean-image-filenames/reviews/) ## Tags * [characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/characters/) * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/) * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [Safari](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/safari/) * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [unocoma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unocoma/) * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-files/#post-8911300) * Status: resolved