# Fixing lost images

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/fixing-lost-images/116523>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fixing-lost-images/116523 "2019-05-01T07:27:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fixing-lost-images/116523/18 "2019-06-27T01:10:10Z")

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> [@peternlewis](#):
>
> rake posts:missing\_uploads

Unfortunately this produced an error now in 2.3:

```
Looking for missing uploads on: default
Fixing missing uploads: 
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................rake aborted!
Errno::EISDIR: Is a directory @ io_fread - /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/original/3X/2/1/
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake:438:in `read'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake:438:in `block in missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:954:in `block (4 levels) in find_missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:919:in `block in each_upload_url'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:899:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:899:in `each_upload_url'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:942:in `block (3 levels) in find_missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:941:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:941:in `block (2 levels) in find_missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.3/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:136:in `block in find_in_batches'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.3/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:238:in `block in in_batches'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.3/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:222:in `loop'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.3/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:222:in `in_batches'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.3/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:135:in `find_in_batches'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:937:in `block in find_missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/lib/distributed_mutex.rb:42:in `synchronize'
/var/www/discourse/lib/distributed_mutex.rb:12:in `synchronize'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:928:in `find_missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake:416:in `missing_uploads'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake:512:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rails_multisite-2.0.7/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:63:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rails_multisite-2.0.7/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:73:in `each_connection'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/posts.rake:511:in `block in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => posts:missing_uploads
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

```

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

The /var/www/discourse/public/uploads/default/original/3X/2/1/ path is indeed a directory and contains a number of files.

```
total 3188…
drwxr-xr-x 2 discourse www-data 4096 Jun 26 05:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 discourse www-data 4096 Dec 11 2017 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 2411 Jan 4 2018 21071b37ddd34…8577415a35.kmactions
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 99179 May 3 22:25 21095a92b7d3a…8bb8fd2f5b.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 22783 Sep 27 2018 2114c84a89433…abd120e3e1.kmmacros
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 46340 May 17 2018 21164f5ec4756…90a0bbe07b.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 47651 May 8 16:46 211e85592e1a0…601255f5f3.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 67333 Jul 11 2018 2124ab5989748…e3e0d33e16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 432 Dec 22 2017 2126c7f6da05a…c9a710d23d.kmactions
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 133395 Oct 26 2018 2129e51f0c84e…b1fc6127c8.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 129649 Oct 30 2017 212ae1b2c938b…3853968d85.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 213930 Jan 20 2018 21319003d36a9…f58405289c.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 103916 Oct 20 2018 213f32c7a3255…580eb8a189.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 24387 Dec 23 2017 21604d2266496…dd7334553b.kmmacros
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 27339 Dec 23 2017 21629ccc332d9…00ac5aabdc.kmmacros
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 52099 Dec 13 2018 216c06cf7a7ca…110c1694d5.jpeg
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 5975 Mar 3 2018 2171321edfe3c…1749a7bfc1.kmmacros
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 65151 Apr 17 21:29 217137bc6fe62…a12ec4e470.jpeg
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 363796 Aug 4 2018 217b5d67819af…6bb19c9ef3.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 36719 Jun 26 2018 2187ee6d05c9a…714884942e.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse discourse 44526 Jun 26 05:49 218834ab50dda…17bd7fa0d0.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 2252 Jan 20 2018 2198f4d6d83c6…be3fe5af41.kmactions
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 24262 Jan 4 09:43 21a5a59ea14d1…b52df95133.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 38080 Jul 2 2018 21be08e3b21b3…952a5020e2.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 57504 Dec 15 2017 21bee8898daa9…91ba94914c.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 158573 Apr 8 19:45 21c1a5428a787…566c290bbe.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 213153 Jul 27 2018 21c62d9d28152…3ed5a56700.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 5416 Jul 9 2018 21cedc56429e5…1ce3867e0e.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 133401 Oct 27 2017 21da4763f4a08…7ceb7f511e.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 52865 Apr 7 2018 21efa676099fc…bd916337aa.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 44587 May 30 2018 21f4718e1d732…c75d39ec19.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 27539 Jan 24 14:14 21fc92d58550a…9b4ff1a960.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 discourse www-data 957839 Oct 25 2018 21fd7efbacd50…3b2b0b3fb2.jpeg

```

(I replaced some of the unique IDs characters with … for irrelevant security, ignore that).

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