# Missing images in discourse website. while they exist in upload folder
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489 "2021-04-20T14:42:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/1 "2021-04-20T14:42:48Z")
I just tried to change the title of an old topic. Then I realized that all images in the topic are now transparent.png and not showing properly.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/2 "2021-04-20T16:36:07Z")
`rake uploads:recover` followed by `rake posts:rebake` didn’t fix the problem.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/3 "2021-04-20T20:38:25Z")
I can access the image by `https://talk.zabanshenas.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/7/8726fbef7b69ac8226d28568b46f3e06afe2fb4f.jpeg`
the upload itself is : ` `
However when I do :
` Upload.where( "url LIKE '%8726fbef7b69ac8226d28568b46f3e06afe2fb4f%'" )`
I get
`=> []`
any idea?
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/4 "2021-04-21T05:04:45Z")
if I upload the exact same image again somewhere else, the old post would also show the image after rebake. so I think its something with indexing some of old uploaded files. How can I **re index** all uploaded files again? Or even better, indexing missing ones.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/5 "2021-04-21T12:19:08Z")
Update:
I read some rake tasks and saw `rake posts:recover_uploads_from_index` which seems to fix my issue. However I’m getting the following error:
```plaintext
undefined method `split' for nil:NilClass
from /var/www/discourse/app/models/site_setting.rb:151:in `s3_base_url'
```
I dont have s3 uploads enabled for my website 🧐 🧐
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/6 "2021-04-21T14:31:27Z")
Update:
I made a temporary ugly fix for above error ([commenting this line](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/tasks/posts.rake#L534)) and run the rake task. but it wasn’t what i was thinking:
```plaintext
Searching for upload://dC9HyffX3S1XbwwdUOsHe5aMyJX.jpeg (dC9HyffX3S1XbwwdUOsHe5aMyJX) in index
Skipping upload://dC9HyffX3S1XbwwdUOsHe5aMyJX.jpeg in https://talk.zabanshenas.com/t/topic/4430/1 cause it appears to have a short file name
Searching for upload://kWx14u8XkQ8qd6NvOoDLN6usTl8.jpeg (kWx14u8XkQ8qd6NvOoDLN6usTl8) in index
Skipping upload://kWx14u8XkQ8qd6NvOoDLN6usTl8.jpeg in https://talk.zabanshenas.com/t/topic/4430/1 cause it appears to have a short file name
```
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-in-discourse-website-while-they-exist-in-upload-folder/187489/7 "2021-04-23T17:39:56Z")
I went further into the rake task `rake uploads:recover`. I think there is something wrong in the following line:
>
as far as i understand here all files in `uploads/default/original` should be added to `@paths`. However I tried to print `@paths` into a file and I only see tombstone files is listed.
Am I missing something here? 🤔 @cvx
I think it should be like
```plaintext
concat(Dir.glob(File.join(
Rails.root, "public", Discourse.store.upload_path,
'original',
'**',
'*.*'
)))
```