Hi everyone, We recently migrated our forum from XenForo to Discourse, and everything was working fine — including all attachment images in posts. However, after a recent Discourse admin upgrade (via the web interface), some images in older posts are no longer displaying. For example, in one post,…

root@jerry-app:/var/www/discourse# rake posts:missing_uploads Looking for missing uploads on: default 2061 post uploads are missing. 2050 uploads are missing. 738 of 3542 posts are affected.

./launcher enter app rake uploads:recover rake posts:rebake It is OK

Images Missing After Recent Discourse Upgrade (Post-XenForo Migration)

Product Support Migration

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 9, 2025, 5:54pm 4

Nice work! Glad you figured it out!

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Images Missing After Recent Discourse Upgrade (Post-XenForo Migration)

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