### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/1 "2015-06-03T21:31:08Z")
reprocase:
- insert an image (using an external url) in a post using a link reference.
- wait for the system to replace the external url with an uploaded copy.
- the url is replaced by an html `
### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/3 "2015-06-03T21:39:17Z")
I’m not following.
Are you saying you want the link to an image in the post to _not_ be changed into the image?
That is the expected behavior.
If you want the link to stay a link don’t put it on it’s own line
Or enclose it in backticks so it gets rendered as a text URL
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/4 "2015-06-03T21:46:08Z")
No @Mittineague, this is not the point.
Maybe this gist will help:
>
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/5 "2015-06-03T21:50:13Z")
Ahh, you’re not using the correct MarkDown syntax for links.
> **[Links - Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link)**
>
> Note: This document is itself written using Markdown; you can see the source for it by adding ‘.text’ to the URL.
It should be
[link text here] (URL here)
\* with the URL in parentheses not as HTML or a “raw” URL
EDIT
:d’oh:
Sorry, I misunderstood what you’re wanting to do. Not a link, but
> **[Images - Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img)**
>
> Note: This document is itself written using Markdown; you can see the source for it by adding ‘.text’ to the URL.
> Reference-style image syntax looks like this:
> ![Alt text][id]
> Where “id” is the name of a defined image reference. Image references are defined using syntax identical to link references:
> [id]: url/to/image “Optional title attribute”
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/6 "2015-06-03T21:56:41Z")
Let try my example on meta:
Ou est Charlie ?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/7 "2015-06-03T21:59:15Z")
Let me try
```plaintext
```
Same thing happens
```plaintext
```
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/8 "2015-06-03T22:03:22Z")
Did you confirm this is a bug ?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/9 "2015-06-03T22:04:30Z")
I don’t know. What is the expected behavior?
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/10 "2015-06-03T22:12:15Z")
expected result shoud be :
```
exemple here :
Ou est Charlie ?
![Char][Charlie]
[Charlie]: /uploads/default/original/1X/70bdb0afec7b129ae882d21587d82d09c2f0a6c3.png
```
and not :
```
exemple here :
Ou est Charlie ?
![Char][Charlie]
[Charlie]: 
```
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/11 "2015-06-03T22:18:56Z")
> [@evantill](#):
>
> exemple here :
>
> Ou est Charlie ?
>
> ![Char][Charlie]
>
> [Charlie]: \
Where are you seeing that? I can’t find it.
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/12 "2015-06-03T22:30:25Z")
you need to wait some job maybe this one:
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### Author:  [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/13 "2015-06-03T22:43:38Z")
the problem seems to be in this regexp because my link reference is not a number :
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/14 "2015-06-03T23:47:00Z")
I see we should probably fix that @zogstrip.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/15 "2022-07-21T05:38:08Z")
Took a while, but I believe @david’s rework of this sub system fixed this long standing issue.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-remote-images-with-local-uploaded-images-issue/29622/16 "2022-07-21T05:38:10Z")