Title: Media Library Import
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Media Library Import

 *  Resolved [9114619](https://wordpress.org/support/users/9114619/)
 * (@9114619)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-import/)
 * I like the fact that WP 2.5 allows you to import images attached to posts that
   are being imported via an XML export I’ve done earlier from my previous version.
   There is a big flaw, however…
 * Once you changed the WordPress Address in the Settings panel, it won’t affect
   the Media Library like it did on importation. I’m stuck with 300+ posts that 
   include renamed images linked that I have to manually rename back.
 * This sucks.

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 *  Thread Starter [9114619](https://wordpress.org/support/users/9114619/)
 * (@9114619)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-import/#post-724767)
 * Fortunatley, I have a friend that is comfortable with MySQL command, so he help
   me out by suggesting this command below:
 * `update $tablename set $field=replace( $field, '/oldfolder/' , '/newfolder/')`
 * Of course I needed to do this for 3 tables, which were wp_options, wp_postmeta
   and wp_posts, but it worked!
 *  [Osu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnabo/)
 * (@mrnabo)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-import/#post-725375)
 * Would you be able to take me through the steps of doing this please? Sorry, I
   find MySQL and WordPress combined difficult to understand.
 * Thanks

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Osu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnabo/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-import/#post-725375)
 * Status: resolved

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