Rebuilt WordPress, I have two “upload folders” and one is in the wrong place

  • Hello, I just recently rebuilt an antiquated (all plugins up to date, but old) website. It’s working but in the course of trying to put the old media inside the new build, I ended up with a folder *outside the wp-content folder. Inside that folder are some of the files I meant for the folder wp-content/uploads. The extra folder (I’m not sure if some are duplicates or missing in the main uploads folder).

    I’m looking for clear directions for a beginner to this rebuild thing.

    My experience is to just build a new site and add from there–and I’ve spent three days linking media to the pages after launch. Ugh.

    I’m concerned that opening up the htdocs and moving things around in Filezilla or Dreamweaver (two ftp utilities I have), to the correct folder, will mess up WordPress corrupt or confuse the database, and I’ll be making even more work for myself.

    Thanks very much. I’m sure I’m not the first one to do this.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Use the plugin “add to server” and point it to the old upload directory. It will add those files to the media library and move them to the right place.

    Thread Starter mmeadpond

    (@mmeadpond)

    Hi, Steven,

    Thanks so much for the information. To be clear, I tried to move the files /copy the files, manually, from the main site (parent site at that time) to the “new” subdomain by *trying slide the files into the folder and must have slipped. So, it’s kind of a partial duplicate from the old site–but now residing outside the the now active wp-content folder. Will this plugin work, please?

    Before I try, I want to be sure I am doing this correctly.

    Thank you again for the clarification.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    “Will this plugin work, please?” Yes.

    Thread Starter mmeadpond

    (@mmeadpond)

    Thank you, Steven!

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