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Multiple copies of images in media library


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Old Jun 13, 2012, 05:06 PM
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I'm not sure when this started - other than some time ago - but now when I add a new image to a blog post, an extra copy (sometimes 3 copies) is placed in my media library. Commonly, they will have the suffix "_m".

Worse, if I re-use one of these images, another copy is created and that *copy* is used in the blog post. I currently have 50+ versions of a logo I use. If I delete a copy, I have to edit the document manually to point it towards the original.

I mentioned this on the WordPress support forum, and someone suggested switching to Twenty Eleven and see what happened. Problem solved. Although my blog looks a bit poo as a result! Back to Atahualpa and the problem returns.

I'm on WP3.4 and Atahualpa 3.7.7, although the problem's been round for a couple of months now so has stretched back to Atahualpa 3.6.4 and WP 3.2, I reckon.
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Old Jun 13, 2012, 05:25 PM
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23,765 posts · Mar 2009
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Themes have nothing to do with the media portion of wordpress, it is part of the base code.
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Old Jun 13, 2012, 05:29 PM
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5 posts · Jun 2009
You know, I'd have thought the exact same thing... until I switched to a default theme, went through the exact same steps with the exact same images as I do with Atahualpa, and didn't get the problem.

Switched back to Atahualpa, tried again... and the problem re-occurred.

Honestly, I'm baffled.
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Old Jun 13, 2012, 06:26 PM
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Have you tried shutting all plugins off?
Also how large are the images you upload? 100k? Or 1meg or so? Wordpress makes resized copies of large images.
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Old Jun 14, 2012, 12:40 AM
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5 posts · Jun 2009
Thanks for getting back to me. No, I've not tried the plug-in thing as it was getting rather later last night. I'll try that later this evening.

The images are pretty dinky, and the one in particular I have umpteen copies of is nowhere near 1Mb. It's definitely not the WP auto-thumbnail thing as that's making single copies of other images and adding a "_m" extension. These ones are being given numbers at the end.

Just strange how changing theme stops it happening, unless it's a plug-in that simply doesn't function with the twenty eleven theme.
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Old Jun 14, 2012, 03:53 AM
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I've just played with my site and when I upload a image, i do get multiple copies, but they are the standard resized ones WordPress does.

I'd be happy to take a look, but if it turned out not to be a theme issue, I'd have to charge you for my time. If you are interested send me a PM with an admin ID/PW
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Old Aug 2, 2012, 02:56 PM
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644 posts · Sep 2010
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For someone who blogs frequently with lots of images, all of which have multiple copies created by WP, there is a nifty plugin called Add from Server.

You create a folder in your root folder or wherever, and tell the plugin where it is. Optimized photos can be FTP'ed to that folder. When you go to insert a photo, one of the options is now Add from Server.

Click the picture you want, it gets added ALONE to the media Library, where you can then select and insert it.

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