transferring images from wordpress.org to .com

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 4:53 pm

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  Hello, I just transferred my site from a self hosted site back to wordpress.com. none of the images in my posts work anymore. I see that they are all pointed to the old media file …/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/…

  how do I get all of those images to resolve?

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 10:47 pm

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  I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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  Hi there,

  If your self-hosted site is still publicly available, our import tool will grab those images and import them into your WordPress.com site. However, if the self-hosted site isn’t available, our importer can’t get the images in order to import them here. In that case, you’ll need to upload the images manually and re-insert them in your imported posts.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that!

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 3:45 pm

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  The self-hosted site can be available if I change the DNS settings back to point to that host. Will that work?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 4:15 pm

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  Yes, that should work! :) Once you switch the DNS back to that host, reply here to let me know. I’ll have our team fix up the images for you.

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 6:48 pm

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  OK, I have changed the DNS back to Dreamhost. Thank you for your help. :)

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 27, 2013 at 6:02 pm

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  Do you have an idea how long it will take?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 11:13 am

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  Hi there,

  I requested that our team fix the images for you, and now that the weekend is over it shouldn’t be too long. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s done! :)

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 2:45 pm

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  Thanks!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 3:24 pm

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  Hi there,

  You should be all set! You can point the DNS for your domain back to WordPress.com, and please let me know if you have any questions. :)

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  prepperpenny · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 8:57 pm

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  Thanks again, Everything went well!