All images missing in WP Media Library

  • Resolved zzzmuzz

    (@zzzmuzz)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    I have the same issue which is described in full here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/all-images-missing-in-wp-media-library?replies=18

    The pertinent info is here:

    Help! One minute they were all there, the next day gone! Actually, they’re all there when you try to edit the image in Media Library, they just don’t show up in the library. They also can’t be seen on the website evelynennor.com Lots of broken links because of it ??
    I deactivated all plugins. No help. Tried changing permalinks to default and back. No help. Couldn’t restore images from backup.
    Well when I go into Media Library, there is a white box instead for every image and it contains only the image title. If I click Edit>Edit Image, it will display each image. That is the only time I can see the images. They do not appear on the website, yet they are right there (somewhere) in the Media Library. How can I “republish” the images on the website? Does that make sense? It sounds much like what others have reported with version 3.4.

    I was first alerted to the fact that many of the images on my site were not showing when I got a Broken Line Checker notice to say that at least 5 links were broken. These all related to images. Many of the images have been there for months and years but as of today they have gone. All images are not affected but most are.

    The image files are where they should be on the server, HTACCESS has not been changed since August so I have no idea what is going on.

    Bizwriter in the post noted above said they

    Here’s what I discovered: I actually fixed this problem (finally!) by renaming the htaccess file in the wpcontent/uploads directory to htaccess.txt.

    I only have one htaccess which is in the top level. ie public_html/site.com

    The only way I can restore images is by reuploading them as a new image but I don’t fancy doing that for all of them!

    Any new ideas?

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  • Have you asked your hosts about this?

    Thread Starter zzzmuzz

    (@zzzmuzz)

    Am doing that now

    Thread Starter zzzmuzz

    (@zzzmuzz)

    Fixed! Vodahost suggested that the permissions were too tight and changed them all to 644. This has worked.

    Interestingly all my other sites are quite happy with the default permissions which is 755.

    Anyway, as long as it works. Thanks for the input and we can now mark this as resolved.

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