PRO version pre-sales question

While I was waiting to hear back on my pre-sales question, I tried moving images from one folder to another folder. The process was running very slowly, but it did manage to move 2700 files before it stopped processing. Is there a better way of performing a move operation on folders that have 5000 files? I am restoring from back-up at the moment as I don’t trust operations that fail like this.

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As for moving files, note that (1) there are limitations to browser memory, thus it would be prudent to move a smaller number of files (let’s say one hundred at a time) rather than move more than the browser can handle. And (2) the media library is a database and not a live picture of the site. Every move requires the database to be updated with the new link information along with moving the file and all its thumbnail images. And also each move sets off a search and replace of embedded links in posts and pages. Thus, a lot of processes are taking place when an image is moved. And before moving lots of image, do a test move to verify the links in posts or page are updated correctly as some WordPress theme and plugins store links in a non standard format.

Hello, I’m having a bit of a problem after the failed move. I now have a folder which is showing under media library folders, but it does not show under WINscp (ftp) If I click on one of the images in the folder the image display, but if I try to move all the image out of the folder MLF is saying that the image does not exist.

Please help.

You can check what the actual URL of the file is by clicking on the image to open the file’s attachment page. The URL of the image is in the right column. That will tell you here it is.

When the folder tree does not line up with the actual folder layout then there could be discrepancies in the database. Restoring the media library from a backup might be the easiest way to resolve this issue.