Title: Losing Media when changing permalink structure
Last modified: April 6, 2017

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# Losing Media when changing permalink structure

 *  [deanroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanroy/)
 * (@deanroy)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/losing-media-when-changing-permalink-structure/)
 * I am trying to change my site from using plain permalinks to using the post-name.
   When I change that in settings I am losing all graphics in my media library.
 * Looking at the website I get missing images all over the place, and in the media
   library I get all empty thumbnails instead of seeing the proper thumbnails for
   the existing files. The files themselves are still there yet it seems that once
   the permalink structure is changed they are not accessible.
 * Thankfully if I switch the structure back to plain everything once again works
   correctly.
 * Any thoughts as to how I change this without losing the media?

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 * Last reply from: [deanroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanroy/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/losing-media-when-changing-permalink-structure/)
 * Status: not resolved

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