restoring broken image links

  • Resolved davidH071

    (@davidh071)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I accidently deleted my entire wordpress library and so the images in my articles I had published were lost. I have dropbox so i restored the images to my library but the image boxes in my articles are still empty.

    Is there any way i can restore all images to my articles or use dropbox to goto a previously backed up version with the images ?

    Or will I have to manually add all the images back

    kind regards
    David

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  • Richard Aber

    (@richaber)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I’m unsure how Dropbox is being used in this scenario.

    Are you running a plugin that creates backups of your site directly in Dropbox?

    Or are you manually dumping files into Dropbox as a form of manual backup?

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    By default, images are stored in ../wp-content/uploads/<year>/<month>.

    Therefore, an image that was uploaded in July 2012, for example, would have the path:

    http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/image.jpg

    So now that you restored (uploaded) all the images from your Dropbox, presumably on the same day (e.g. today), all their paths are now:

    http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/image.jpg etc.

    You can now see why they are shown as “empty”; the path has changed.

    If you have a backup of your site files, you could replace the current uploads folder with the backed up one. If you do not have a backup, perhaps contact your host to see if they can restore your site from one of their backups.

    Someone else may have another suggestion but barring that, the only thing I can think of is to manually add the images back to their respective places in your posts/pages.

    Thread Starter davidH071

    (@davidh071)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    thanks for the input, ive paid a small fee for Hostgater to do a restore for me. Many thanks

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