Help! How do I restore photos deleted from Media Library?

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 12, 2013 at 2:43 am

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  I recently (yesterday and a couple of weeks ago) deleted photos from my media library, not knowing that they would be deleted from my published posts as well. Is there any way I can retrieve those? I’ve deleted the photos from my computer as well so I can’t upload them back onto the media library. Hoping you can help the way you did here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-get-deleted-media-library-photos-back-into-old-published-posts?replies=9#post-1237777 and here
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-restore-accidentally-deleted-images-from-my-media-library?replies=17

  Any help would be much appreciated!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 12, 2013 at 2:58 am

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  I’ve put a modlook tag on this thread so staff can take a look. Please subscribe so you’ll be notified when there is a response.

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 12, 2013 at 3:02 am

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  Thank you very much! Will wait for a staff member to reply.

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:03 am

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  Hi! Any word on how I can resolve this issue?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:05 am

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  Here are the indexed images in Google’s cache.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:07 am

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  The modlook is still on this topic. Staff will see it and respond. It’s been the weekend so you can only be patient until someone looks at this thread.

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:08 am

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  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:10 am

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  @1Tess
  I have yet to see Staff restore images in situations like these. It’s my understanding the image caches are cleared frequently and that we have to capture what we can from Google’s image cache and upload again.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:38 am

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  I have seen one or two cases where the images were restored – BUT – they can only do a full site restore (not individual images) so any content added since the restore point is lost.

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:40 am

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  That’s fine! I can live with that.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 14, 2013 at 5:34 am

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  @timethief,
  Yes, the op gave two examples of a site restore, including pictures in the media library. That’s why I modlooked this. I think I’ve seen others as well.

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 10:41 pm

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  Because of the nature of restoring a blog and what’s involved, we are unable to restore blog content for users when they have deleted their own content.

  ynez9128, if you would like to replace those images, you will need to upload them again and link them back to your posts as they were originally. You may wish to refer to the link timethief kindly provided for finding the cached images.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 11:29 pm

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  This is a more restrictive search – you might try this one first then the one from @TT above

  https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=558&q=http%3A%2F%2Fspoonandhammer.com%2F&oq=http%3A%2F%2Fspoonandhammer.com%2F&gs_l=img.12…2674.2674.0.3794.1.1.0.0.0.0.152.152.0j1.1.0….0…1ac.2.28.img..1.0.0.ExGYGf49JEs#filter=0&hl=en&q=*.files.themamadiariesph.wordpress.com&tbm=isch

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 11:31 pm

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  The link broke – the search string I used is below

  *.files.themamadiariesph.wordpress.com

  That only looks for images with the name of the base WordPress.COM blog

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  ynez9128 · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 6:58 am

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  Thank you all for your help!