Title: can't replace with empty string
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# can't replace with empty string

 *  [Cyberchicken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberchicken/)
 * (@cyberchicken)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-replace-with-empty-string/)
 * I know this was by design a safety feature, but I actually needed to do it:
 * I moved my jpgs from uploads/2015/02/ to simply uploads/
 * I already replaced “uploads/2015/02” with “uploads/” and did most of the job,
   but not all!
 * It happens that the postmeta table contains
    “2015/02/mypic.jpg” (php serialized)
   so, in this case I will need to replace “2015/02/” with “”
 * What can I do?
 * Thank you 🙂
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-replace-with-empty-string/)
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