Where did my photos go?
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Every single photo is gone from every single blog of mine. Where did the photos go but most importantly, can I get them back?
Thank you!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
Did you delete them from your media library? If so, it will remove them from your post/page and leave a broken link.
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Yes, I did. I had more photos in the library than what I actually used for the blogs but I had no idea it would wipe out the photos from the blogs too.
Is there a way to get them or is there a copy of my blogs somewhere?
God, what did I do? :(
Thanks
Szilvia -
Szilvia,
When media files and uploads have been removed from your blog, there is no way to recover them. That action is permanent. In order to get them back, you will have to upload them again to your blog.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/
I’m sorry you have lost them and hope you still have them saved on your computer or phone somewhere.
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Szilvia,
I think I have figured out how to locate and save your images. I’m not completely sure, since I don’t know what images were showing previously. Hopefully you will be able to find them all since Google has previously indexed them.
I am using chrome and on a Mac, so I’m not sure how your options will display…
On your blog where the images are no longer displaying, right click and select copy image address (or something similar) Open Google Search in different tab and drop that link in Google search. No results will return. However, click on the option for images to display. You should now see the image(s). You can save them directly from there. However, I’m not sure how resolution and sizing will work out if needed.
Further example:
Building your own Baltic-Scandinavian road trip and cross country travel, which you posted on September 16, 2016. There should be an image of a bus displaying there for the first image.
When I drop this link: https://travelbigspendsmalldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/bus.jpg?w=674&h=463 in Google Search and click on images, an image of a bus comes up that points to your post. The bus has Lux Express on the side of it.
Let me know how that works for you. I saved several images to my computer in case my search made those that I looked at disappear.
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Thank you so much for your help with this but unfortunately I have no luck yet, at least not on my desktop computer but I will give it a try on my Mac.
I’m glad to hear that you were able to find images in one of my blogs, that is good news, I hope I can do the same on my but I have Safari on the Mac.
Hopefully it will work with that too.
I certainly learned my lesson the hard way.
Thank you again -
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