Migrated site, Media Library not working

WordPress Questions
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Hello, I migrated a site over to a live server. Everything (Well, almost everything) is working now, except none of my media files are working. I have all the old media on the new server in the same locations as before.

However in my media library they all show up as blank thumbnails: https://gyazo.com/d05364585d106d07f09f99b892c897f1

The URL for the media files (in that screenshot) all work correctly. For example the one highlighted there is here: http://e0f.d79.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/writer-03.jpg

But when I go into the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin and regenerate, all I get is a bunch of errors that say “Skipped Attachment ID X (xxxx): The fullsize image file cannot be found in your uploads directory at [] . Without it, new thumbnail images can’t be generated.”

Here’s the screenshot: https://gyazo.com/bddc1114b37922e54c6330295a122021

It looks like there’s a weird discrepancy on file paths or something.

Any idea what’s going on here?

Thank you,
Chris

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Hi Chris,

How did you migrate the site to your live server? Did you do it manually or use a plugin such as Duplicator or All-in-One WP Migration?

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All manually. Actually Local stopped working so I grabbed all the files and DB from the program folders. Everything works fine except for this.

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My guess is that something like a domain or path wasn’t replaced properly when you imported the site into Local.

I would try pulling the live site with Duplicator. Once you have the Duplicator package, simply drag-and-drop it into Local to import it.

If the issue persists we can go from there.