If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Everything you have explained is absolutely correct in terms of how one would enter images into a post. However, all I can say is that somebody logged in with your user account and deleted a number of images from the media library. Most of the ones you are concerned about seem to have been deleted ~3 months ago. But there are also more recent examples. This image for example, was deleted just 3 weeks ago:
As was this one:
So SOMEBODY is deleting images from the media library.
I am not sure what else to tell you other than, perhaps for security’s sake, you should consider changing your account password.
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Dear Rootjosh:
I may well have deleted those two images (contenders, but not the
final choices) for the post of Cooper’s London on October 22, 2014
(for a book about Coco Chanel, and an opera starring Mary Bevan).
BUT THEY WERE DELETED FROM MY PICTURES FILE ON MY HARD DRIVE. NOT FROM THE WORDPRESS PICTURE GALLERY.Let me throw this out for consideration: about three months ago,
in early September, I started using Chrome (on a new computer).
I changed from IE9 because it became clear that it was making trouble.
I’ve been using the Chrome ever since. But, if you’re puzzled that some of this lengthy exchange seems to be coming your way via IE9, it’s because I occasionally use the old computer (and the IE9) for emails.
BUT NEVER FOR POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Is there possibly something in Chrome that might be causing the problem? Either way, I NEVER DELETED A SINGLE IMAGE FROM THE WORDPRESS TEMPLATE. And I’m the only person who is Site Admin;
I don’t even remember what my password is because I started the blog
in 2009 and haven’t changed (or accessed it) since then.I know I can’t get the missing images back because it would take
months to do it. But I am desperate that the images don’t disappear
going forward, because I do have to clean out my picture file from
time to time. (BTW: even the avatars were missing from the posts —
I’ve never deleted them even from my own picture file because I use
them repeatedly.)I am now working on several posts — all of them late — that need to
be finished and uploaded, and I plan to illustrate them as I did previously.What can I do?
Judith
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Is there possibly something in Chrome that might be causing the problem?
I cannot think of anything on Chrome that would be doing this.
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Perhaps. But that’s what changed approximately three months ago.
If you think it’s to the point, I can change my password (though you’d
best guide me with instructions on how to do it).But even more to the point: going forward, how can I prevent the images
from disappearing from the archived posts when I occasionally lean out
my own picture file? Won’t they remain in the WordPress picture gallery
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I’ve addressed the problem of the two images you said had been
deleted from the Cooper’s London post of of october 22, 2014 — they
were not my final choices, so I deleted them. FROM MY OWN PICTURE FILE ON MY HARD DRIVE — NOT FROM THE WORDPRESS PICTURE GALLERY. And the rest of the images in that post (at least for now)
have remained where I put them when I uploaded the post to the blog.But I’m deeply concerned that the problem not occur going foward.
Please advise
thanks,
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I’m sure you’re tired of this by now. But there’s no explanation for
the missing images. From 2009 up to October 30, 2013. although most
of the images (except the avatars) have long since been deleted from
my own hard drive Picture file (as opposed to WordPress’ Image Gallery), they remain in place in the blog.But, in the post of october 30, 2013. the images (also long since deleted from my own hard drive Picture File) are there for the first half of the post. Starting about halfway down (with the film “Burning Bush”), the images are gone. then, going forward this summer — 2014 — they remain gone. And the avatars for this period (which I never deleted)
are there sometimes, and not there other times.When I discovered this a few months ago, I reinserted the avatars
(so readers could see who was posting) and, in the case of the Brooklyn
Museum post — which cried out for images — reinserted THOSE images as well.And, as I said earlier, I store my original post texts on my hard drive,
just like the images, but in a Don’t Miss It file. I almost always delete
them shortly after the post is published. Yet not one word of THEM
has ever disappeared.Please, please, please — I’m about to upload several posts, and don’t
want it to happen again. The issue is:
why should something I delete from my own hard drive Picture File
(but never from the WordPress Media Gallery) disappear if it remains
in the WordPress Media Gallery?Judith
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Please, please answer me. I am about to start uploading new posts
and adding images.My original texts are stored on my hard drive in the Don’t Miss it file.
My original images are stored on my hard drive in my Picture File.
(Totally separate from the WordPress Media Gallery of WordPress’
editing template.)I have been deleting texts pretty much as soon as they are uploaded
into the blog. And often deleting images if I no longer need them.The texts have NEVER disappeared. The images — from roughly
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From what you are telling me, there is nothing that I can see that you are doing incorrectly. All I know is that at some point, someone using your account deleted some images out of your media library.
So I don’t really have any answer I can give you that is an ironclad promise that it will never happen again. I would just encourage you to not delete images from your media library ever.
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But if I do that, my hard drive will groan under the weight.
And there’s still no explanation of why the earlier posts retainbed
their images (from 2009 to, roughly, July of 2013). Because virtually
ALL of those images (except for the avatars) have long since been
deleted from my hard drive.What did change, rootjosh, was Wrodpress’ technology for blogging,
especially for adding images. It used to be a one-step process, and
then it became two. So that, instead of uploading images to a post
directly from my hard drive picture file, I would have to upload them to WordPress’ Gallery for placement and sizing. This happenbed roughly
the summer of 2013. Now, WordPress has direct access to my
hard drive picture file. That’s how you knew that I had deleted the
two images (one of Coco Chanel, and another you mentioned but I can’t
remember.) Neither of these appeared in the blog, and I wasn’t going to need them again, so I deleted them. But, again, not from the WordPress
Gallery, but from my hard drive picture file.Stuff happens. So all I can say is it’s impossible to keep adding images
ad infinitum to my pictiure file because it will, if not pruned, simply overflow.The best thing is for WordPress to not keep changing its technology,
or at least to do it selectively. Because not every change (as in the
rest of life) is always for the better.I do appreciate the time you’ve put in, and would feel better if I, or
Wordpress, could have repaired the damage.Best,
Judith
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Glad to hear that the pain has produced at least one positive outcome.
Losing the images — which had taken long hours to select and insert —
was a shock. And learning that if I delete unnecessary images from
my own hard drive picture file they will now disappear from the blog
was an equal shock.I loved WordPress initially because it was a pleasure to use, and did such a good job of offering writers a place to create quality work.
As it becomes more and more complicated (often for no good reason other than to provide challenges and diversions for its users) has been
sobering. As I said in the beginning: I understand that there will be more and more pressure to monetize WordPress, and I definitelly get
that. I’m not against it as long as it doesn’t become — as have so many other facets of life — punishing.But having to spend more and more time face its ongoing challenges,
rather than concentrating on putting up good work really takes away
from the quality of that work.Thanks for your comment.
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This is for everyone who has joined the topic. I appreciate your questions and you answers. So, once again, I will try to summarize:
On my hard drive, I have a file that contains many folders. The two that concern WordPress are:
1) My Documents (where I store posts in Word before uploading them to the WordPress editing template in order to add images). and
2) My Pictures (where I store images relating to the posts that I will
be editing in the WordPress template.
3) When the Word documents are finalized, and the images chosen,
I go to the WordPress editing template to insert and size the images
still stored in My Pictures.
4) I choose where in the post I want to insert the images, click on
Add Media, and find myself in The WordPress Gallery. I access the
My Pictures file, select (now via the WordPress Gallery) what i want,
size it, place it in the blog (where I left my cursor), and go on to the
next image insert process.
5) Periodically, when I had accumulated a lot of images, I would delete
them from past posts — but ALWAYS from My Pictures — NEVER from
the WordPress Gallery, which accrues them over time.
6) Even more often, I delete past posts (stored in Word in My Documents) once they’ve been uploaded into the blog.
7) None of the deleted posts have ever disappeared in whole or in part,
from the blog. ONLY IMAGES.And, as several people have said, this should have nothing to do with
my using Chrome. It began when I was still using IE9. And it also did not
delete earlier images from the blog between 2009 – July 2013. They had long since been deleted from My Pictures, yet remain in the blog’s archives.
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