Disabling WPML seems to have worked, at far as deleting every ghost file is concerned- however, another bug cropped up, and now I can’t see fresh uploads to the Media Library. Puzzling.
Oh wow, I have the same problem and it’s freaking me out!!! I’ve also chalked it up to the 4.0 update because I’ve done nothing else since then. I have now over 5,600+ phantom images in my media library.
Too bad no one else has offered help here. 🙁
I tried disabling wpml BUT nothing changed. What exactly did you do? Deactivate, test to see if the files were gone in media library, then reactivate? That’s what I did…
And how did you manage to get the uploads working again? I’m still having problems with that!
I am having the same problem, but I managed finaly to delete the phantom images, after trying for a very long time.