Title: Odd behavior on thumbnail import
Last modified: February 10, 2017

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# Odd behavior on thumbnail import

 *  [zldallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zldallas/)
 * (@zldallas)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-behavior-on-thumbnail-import/)
 * When I try to set the filed ‘post_thumbnail’ to path of an image that already
   exists e.g. /wp-content/my/image.png it won’t set the featured image on the imported
   post. And if I specify the full path of the image e.g. [http://mydomain.com/wp-content/my/image.png](http://mydomain.com/wp-content/my/image.png),
   it creates multiple copies of the image in the media library, one for each post
   that has the image attached (there are many). I would like to keep only one copy
   of the image that already exists in my media library and just have it attached
   to the posts. How can I do that?

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 * Last reply from: [zldallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zldallas/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-behavior-on-thumbnail-import/)
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