# Missing uploads, no tombstone recovery
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-uploads-no-tombstone-recovery/90025
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 16, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-uploads-no-tombstone-recovery/90025 "2018-06-16T15:24:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Hewitt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hewitt)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-uploads-no-tombstone-recovery/90025/1 "2018-06-16T15:24:34Z")
I’ve been having trouble with user uploads disappearing. After reading various posts like this one:
> [@Uploads:recover\_from\_tombstone not resurrecting images](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-recover-from-tombstone-not-resurrecting-images/78295):
>
> Summary I believe the uploads:recover\_from\_tombstone script is not restoring everything it should from the tombstone. My reasoning is as follows: Recently, our Discourse forum had a problem where uploaded images would no longer appear: And [here](http://forum.imagej.net/t/contest-new-imagej-logo/8485/16) is an example topic illustrating the issue. Description The problem began around December 30. I investigated yesterday, and events unfolded as follows: I upgraded to the latest version of Discourse (v2.0.0.beta1 +123) hoping it would magically fix…
I tried upgrading to the latest version of Discourse planning on then using the recover\_from\_tombstone script.
Note incase it’s applicable: I also had a ton of failed sidekiq tasks due to email setup issues. As we don’t want the site sending any emails I turned that feature off via the admin console, and then ran the task to flush redis.
After all of this I tried to recover from tombstone. It does nothing:
```
rake --trace uploads:recover_from_tombstone
** Invoke uploads:recover_from_tombstone (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute uploads:recover_from_tombstone
```
However, if I run uploads: missing there is a large list of missing items.
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Curtis\_Rueden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Curtis_Rueden)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-uploads-no-tombstone-recovery/90025/2 "2018-06-19T16:56:58Z")
> [@Hewitt](#):
>
> if I run uploads: missing there is a large list of missing items.
@Hewitt I am no expert, but a little more information might be helpful to the Discourse team. For example, did you check whether the uploads are still present in the tombstone, like I described in my post?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-uploads-no-tombstone-recovery/90025/3 "2021-01-01T10:14:24Z")