Deleting one image deletes both

  • Resolved sjohnso3

    (@sjohnso3)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I used a plugin “Duplicate Post” that when it duplicated a post, it duplicated all of the images in the post by creating a second entry in the media library which points to the same image file in the uploads folder.

    When I run Media Dedupler, it identifies two images as being duplicates of each other. But if I select one to delete, the other image is also removed, though its entry in the media library remains. It now has a “broken link” image where the image should be.

    Is there a way for this plugin to delete the duplicate database table entry without deleting the actual image file in uploads? Does anybody know of a plugin that could do that?

    Hope this makes sense.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/media-deduper/

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  • It’s disappointing this still isn’t resolved. Ran into this issue myself on our live site – we lost the originals on quite a few images. I’ll be leaving a neg review to warn others, especially since it’s been 3 months with no response.

    Sorry for the delay on our response —?you’re absolutely right to complain, and to flag the problem here.

    As I mentioned in the other thread, but am putting here too in the hopes no one fails to see it: Currently this plugin doesn’t check WHY to media posts have exactly the same file data associated with them, it just sees that they do. So if you’ve got multiple media posts “sharing” the exact same media file, use of this plugin would quite likely result in data loss.

    We’re working on it.

    so: We’ve just released version 1.1.0 of Media Deduper, which introduces support for identifying when items are flagged as duplicates because they share the same media file. By default, we’re omitting those posts from the list of duplicates, since deleting any one of them can cause data loss. However, we’re implemented the ability to show those if you want, which can be useful if you’re trying to identify redundant posts and not just redundant files.

    Please take a look and let us know what you think!

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