restore deleted images

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  thelooseplucker · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 5:01 pm

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  I deleted some images from my library not realising that this would delete them from my blogs. Is there a way of restoring these images? I think I may have them backed up but it will be a heck of a job going through it all. Cheers

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  thelooseplucker · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 5:18 pm

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  OK – had a look through Google and others have made the same error and unfixable unless we have the pictures on some other archive. Guys – if this is such an issue can we have some more upfront information about it? Might help. John

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 5:58 pm

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  Images and media you upload into your media library and embed into posts and pages are on wordpress.COM servers. They remain visible unless or until you delete them from your media library. Deleting them from your media library also removes them from every place you embedded them in the blog and leaves behind broken links.

  Staff cannot restore images you delete from your Media Library. You have to upload them all again, and then fix every broken image link in every post/page it was embedded into previously.

  You may be able to locate them in Google’s image cache or in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thelooseplucker.wordpress.com/

  If you upload lots of images you can exhaust that free space allocation quickly. Currently, the only way to get an extra space allocation after you upload the images again, is to purchase an upgrade bundle. https://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/