Exported my site from Local on my old machine using Wp Migrate Lite. This gave a directory which I zipped and imported into Local on a new machine (16GB). All seemed to go ok. However, the website on my new machine looks ok but if I try to edit pages all images are placeholders. Digging deeper it looks like all my image links are back to my origin Wordpress media library even though all the images have been imported correctly in to both my new and old machines local database. ie the media library is correctly populated!
What went wrong and how can I get my site to use the local media library rather than referencing the original Wordpress site???
Did you try running any Search and Replace jobs in Site Shell or with a plugin like Better Search Replace? You might have to do something like that to clean up old references.
You might also have some plugin/theme cache to purge, depending on what you use in your setup.
Even though you’re not using Live Links here, the troubleshooting steps in this link will be similar if you need: Troubleshooting Live Links
I did download Better Search Replace and modified all the url which worked well. I then discovered that images had been missed in the transfer from either my previous local install or possibly from the wordpress original site. This seems most likely … using AI i put together a script to extract all the original site URL and then wget all the source files. This downloaded 9GB rather than the 16GB of source images. I know every image has been used so suspect some limiting by wordpress. My next step is to export the media from my original and see if I can use that. Sadly my original wordpress site is a basic package so no (export or other) plugins are allowed. Upgrading to a business plan just to export is around £300/yr and not necessarily reversible according to chat help!!