Possible to rename/move file directory for sub-sites?

Hi inge12!

The fact that your uploads go to blogs.dir means that you have an older multisite network. After WordPress 3.5 was released (or maybe it was 3.6?), Multisite uploads shifted from blogs.dir to wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2015.

I had one of those too.

Switching/updating is not for the faint of heart or novice:
https://halfelf.org/2012/dumping-ms-files/

Looks like you got the SabbathIssues.org site fixed?

Whew! Thanks for the reply, Bet! I was about to despair because no one was paying attention to my cry for help.

No the SabbathIssues site is not fixed. No graphics, except for that *one* header banner. That banner is found here:
https://sabbathissues.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files//2013/08/Sabbath-Issues-Banner2-980.jpg
I checked, and the file is physically found at
https://ssnet.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files/2013/08/Sabbath-Issues-Banner2-980.jpg
It is not found at https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/2013/08/Sabbath-Issues-Banner2-980.jpg”

So the blog is using https://ssnet.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files/2013/08/Sabbath-Issues-Banner2-980.jpg but not showing the images in the directory. Trouble is that that is the *only* image it uses from the directory. (I put all the other images in the https://ssnet.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files/ directory as well as in the https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/ directory.

Now I’m wondering if that provides a clue regarding how to fi the site. I did try to have it read from my directory:
https://ssnet.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files, but it didn’t help any.
*Nothing* shows up in the Media Library, except place holders. when I searth for the banner file, there’s a place holder, but when I try to edit the file, the correct file shows up, but no edits are saved, as far as I can tell.

I describe the full problem more at https://bewellandprosper.net/, since it has exactly the same issues. (It’s the first post on the page. https://bewellandprosper.net/testing-wordpress-4-5/)

I’m puzzled by that double forward slash in the URL that shows up in the code. Do you understand it?

If you could help me resolve the issue of the graphics and theme disconnect, I’d be ever so grateful.

Okay, I see that in https://halfelf.org/2012/dumping-ms-files/ you do have instructions that should/might work for me.

I just can’t figure out why my sites got detached from the uploads directories.

The POSTS still appear correctly, so it appears they are still connected correctly to the database.

I’m a little nervous about editing the database itself when it seems to be working right now.

ONLY the connection to the “uploads” directory seems to be broken.

Ideas?

Ok. I read through your posts. Seems you are having theme issues too, so I’m wondering: have you tried temporarily switching to a default theme (one of the Twenty-somethings)? Does this let you upload an image into a post and then have it display?

Also, try deactivating all your plugins. These can sometimes interfere with uploads. If this is happening in all the sites in your network, I would start with the network activated plugins. If that doesn’t solve the issue, then I would try also deactivating plugins on subsites.

Before doing this deactivation however, try to get your upload paths back to what they were at the beginning. Hopefully you remember what that was! ??

You should be nervous about db editing! Make multiple backups at every step! I actually eventually hired a developer to make the migration for me.

Okay, will switch themes on the subsites.

Not sure how many network plugins I want to deactivate. The main site is very busy, with often over 4,000 users on site at any one second. It is working perfectly.

The only problem is with subthemes and their connection to the Uploads directory.

Hi again, Bret, I’ve had to be out today, so didn’t have time to respond. If you’ll stick with me on this, I’ll really appreciate it.

The only plugins currently active on the site are “Network Active” and work perfectly on the main site. I deactivated some that are not absolutely necessary, but that didn’t seem to make a difference.

I did a “Preview” of the Twenty-fifteen theme, and it gives me a blank front page and no graphics.

My current upload paths are set like this:
Upload Path: https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/

Upload Url Path: https://sabbathissues.org/files/

These might have been reversed initially, but I don’t remember.

The banner shows up as being at
https://sabbathissues.org/wp-content/sabbathissues/files//2013/08/Sabbath-Issues-Banner2-980.jpg

So what’s with the extra “/” after “files”??

Okay, I gotta confess that some time back I created this directory:
https://ssnet.org/public_html/wp-content/sabbathissues/files/ and the banner file is in the place specified, but I wonder about that extra “/”

I think I may have had the upload path specified differently at the time.

The thing is that the media files are all at that sabbathissues/files locationn as well as at https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/

Why does the blog not recognize one directory or the other?

It recognized the relevant database, because the *posts* and *comments* show up.

Please just tell me one thing to try at a time. Thanks.

One more thing:

I did a “Preview” of the Twenty-fifteen theme. The front page of SabbathIssues showed up blank, so I chose to edit the header image by uploading an image. It promptly showed up in the Media library as a placeholder icon. However, I could see it when I chose to “Edit” the image. It was uploaded to this place:
https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues/sabbath-issues980x148/

So it seems that the blog uploads to one location but reads from another in all instances except “edit image.”

Again, my current upload paths are set like this:
Upload Path: https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/

Upload Url Path: https://sabbathissues.org/files/