Deleted image keep showing up

Hi,

I realized sometimes when I tried to upload an image it keep showing up an older version of the image. The only way I can fix that is to rename the image to a completely different name.

For example, I have a newer version of an image that I need to upload, the image name is 1.png

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I then proceeded to upload the image, during the uploading process, it shows it uploaded the image with the correct name 1.png

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However, once the uploading has been completed, it somehow show the old image name 1-3.png

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I have tried the following:
1) clicked delete permanently but same thing happen, the same image 1-3.png resurfaced again after I tried to upload

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2) I can see the ghost image 1-3.png is stored in this path via media library
https://hopeedu.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1-3.png

so I went into the path and deleted the file, I tried to upload again but it appeared again ….
I tried to refresh the path and then comes 1-3.png somehow it magically appeared again in the wp-content/uploads/2022/03 folder…

I have read online people says when we delete it’s deleted from database but not from the server but I believe if I delete from wp-content it should be deleting from server?

Am I missing something?
Thanks,

Regards,
Hope

• This topic was modified 3 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic