Title: Media Replacement
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Media Replacement

 *  [catix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catix/)
 * (@catix)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-replacement/)
 * Hello; I’ve recently edited many of the images in my media directory. Deleting
   each one and uploading the new one in its place is a rather daunting task, and
   I hesitate to just use FTP since WordPress stores metadata in the database. Is
   there a simpler way to reupload/replace images? Is there a way to prompt WP to
   regenerate metadata from the directory if I replace the images via FTP?
 * Thanks

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

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 * Last reply from: [catix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catix/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-replacement/)
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