Title: Replacement Images
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Replacement Images

 *  [jlames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlames/)
 * (@jlames)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-images/)
 * I have a product with 17 variations for which I created a product page and successfully
   set attributes, variations, colors and individual images. Everything worked fine.
   I elected to change out the images for similar but different images so I created
   17 new images and named them identically to the first 17 so I could avoid having
   to go into the product page and re-link the images to their data. I first Deleted
   Permanently all of the first set of images from the server to avoid a conflict
   with duplicate names and then uploaded the second set. But when the second set
   began appearing in the media center, they’re the old images which I’d already
   removed. Did I miss something?
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 *  [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * (@lorro)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-images/#post-6040122)
 * Probably when you deleted the original images you didn’t delete the relevant 
   thumbnails, and its the thumbnails that are referenced by the page. When you 
   uploaded the new images they will have had a new id?
 * If so, since the old images as uploaded have gone, I think you going to have 
   to relink the variations to the new images. Next time, you could use a plugin
   like:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/)
 * If you managed to upload the new images in place of the old ones using ftp then
   it will be easier, all you need do is regenerate the thumbnails from the new 
   images:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/)

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 * Last reply from: [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-images/#post-6040122)
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