Organize Upload as month/year-based folders – Re-Switch?

  • Once you’ve switched OFF: Settings > Media > Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders —
    Can you go back – recheck it and switch it back to — organizing media by month/year etc. –Will you mess up anything by changing your mind and going back to doing this? BTW- this is a site with a very large number of images. More than 2,000.

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  • You can switch it On and off as you wish. Nothing will be broken.

    Please note that when you switch it on or off, WordPress does not move around files. The setting only applies to the uploads that happen in the future.

    Hope that makes sense.

    This I did not know… and moved the physical files to the media root folder, then deleted the empty date folders. All this after moving the whole installation to the actual root of the domain… and tried to fix the links as I found them in the db, in wp_options and wp_posts tables. I also installed the velved_blues plugin to fix the links, which found only 1 record to change (probably due to the month/year discrepancy). Any suggestions how to fix this mess?

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