Multiple phantom images in media library, can't delete,

  • Heya.

    I recently ran afoul with this nasty bug, which plagued my WP WooCommerce installation. Using Mystile / WooCommerce as a shop template, did a localization to retailer’s language.

    I updated recently into WP 4.0, and no sooner did I do that than all hell broke loose. Uploading new media images would freeze the system up, and I’d end up with literally a thousand duplicate ghost images. These ‘ghosts’ don’t show up in the Uploads folder of my WP installation- even removing the folder alltogether from the server seems to preserve this ghost files, most likely on my hosting, somewhere. Current tally of these corrupt files is at 3 304 files, total.

    I finally managed to get uploads to work again, but I’m still stuck with a myriad of ghosts in the Media Library, which cannot be deleted- I keep getting two error messages, either stating the file has already been deleted or that there has been an error, without further info about the nature or code of said error.

    Absolutely vexing. Any ideas on how to fix this, short of going nuclear and starting from scratch?

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  • Thread Starter Olaf_Merchant

    (@olaf_merchant)

    Disabling WPML seems to have worked, at far as deleting every ghost file is concerned- however, another bug cropped up, and now I can’t see fresh uploads to the Media Library. Puzzling.

    Oh wow, I have the same problem and it’s freaking me out!!! I’ve also chalked it up to the 4.0 update because I’ve done nothing else since then. I have now over 5,600+ phantom images in my media library.

    Too bad no one else has offered help here. ??

    I tried disabling wpml BUT nothing changed. What exactly did you do? Deactivate, test to see if the files were gone in media library, then reactivate? That’s what I did…

    And how did you manage to get the uploads working again? I’m still having problems with that!

    I am having the same problem, but I managed finaly to delete the phantom images, after trying for a very long time.

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