Title: Uninstall options
Last modified: November 23, 2016

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# Uninstall options

 *  Resolved [Ron Ashman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakurkr/)
 * (@fakurkr)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for this plugin.
    I have 2 questions though that I’d like to ask you.
 * 1) Why do you do this for free? Just out of curiosity. That’s really great.
 * 2) If for some reason I decide to stop using Dreamspeed, I would have to replace
   all the URLs of my images right? “Manually”
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/#post-8478258)
 * 1) I’m a socialist 🙂 Also this one I’m actually compensated to maintain by DreamHost.
 * 2) Alas, yes. I’ve been experimenting with uninstalls and trying to make them
   not be as clunky as the “Upload all your existing media…” has been a lesson in
   frustration. It _mostly_ works, but when it doesn’t, it leaves users in a half-
   fixed state. :/
 *  Thread Starter [Ron Ashman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakurkr/)
 * (@fakurkr)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/#post-8478292)
 * Thank you for replying!
 * I want to try it but I’m a little afraid it might slower the site and have a 
   counter effect.
 * Do you think that using a replace query or a plugin such as Better Search Replace
   could fix it? I don’t really know how CDN works, if it keeps the file name or
   what.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/#post-8489909)
 * The copy-up does a per-post check “Is the image uploaded? Yes? edit the image”
   so realistically an uninstall routine would be ‘as simple as’ as replace query.
 * TBH, it’s actually just that, but getting it to run properly 100% of the time
   when automated has been harder than I expected.
 * Paradoxically, every time I’ve ever done it manually (via wp-cli) it’s worked
   perfectly 😐
 * `wp search-replace CDNURL LOCALURL`
 * So if your CDN is [https://objects.dreamhost.com/bucketname](https://objects.dreamhost.com/bucketname)
   then…
 * `wp search-replace 'objects.dreamhost.com/bucketname/wp-content/uploads' 'example.
   com/wp-content/uploads'`
 * Personally I try to use the most specific URL string possible in a search/replace,
   to avoid hitting the wrong things.
 *  Thread Starter [Ron Ashman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakurkr/)
 * (@fakurkr)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/#post-8493160)
 * I see. I will give it a try then.
 * Thanks a lot Mika Epstein!

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 * Last reply from: [Ron Ashman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakurkr/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-options/#post-8493160)
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