All photos on new godaddy hosted site are deleted after deleting wordpress blog

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  womanwanders · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 3:22 pm

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  I received my own domain name with godaddy as a gift. The site still runs through wordpress. I exported everything easily to the new site, then deleted my wordpress.com blog. Now I’m realizing that all of my exported photos are gone. Is there a way to fix this or recover them?? Panicking.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 19, 2015 at 2:08 am

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  I’m afraid that once a site is deleted, it is gone forever. If you still have the export file, you might try importing it into another test site to see if perhaps something went wrong with the import.

  A good resource for self-hosted WordPress site issues is here:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

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  womanwanders · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 3:57 am

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  Thank you for responding. The only thing that confuses me is that I only delete the WordPress blog after a few weeks of exporting everything over to the self hosted site, and all the pics were there. Would it really delete everything off the self hosted site because I deleted the blog?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 5:30 am

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  If the images were not imported, but only hotlinked, then yes. It would delete them off the blog they were displayed on if the source blog was deleted.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 19, 2015 at 10:31 pm

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  Raincoaster is exactly right.