Title: Feature Request
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Feature Request

 *  Resolved [bigjake36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigjake36/)
 * (@bigjake36)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-429/)
 * Is there anyway to include an option to allow “Media Deduper” to index the files
   by simply clicking an re-index key ?? Right now “Media Deduper” does the indexing
   on it’s own which is OK, but if someone deletes a ton of images it would be nice
   to be able to simply hit the key and rebuild the index. Possible ???
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-deduper/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-deduper/)

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 *  [drywallbmb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drywallbmb/)
 * (@drywallbmb)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-429/#post-7076864)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for writing. I’m not sure what you mean here — deleting files shouldn’t
   require any re-indexing. Indexing basically just adds a postmeta value for each
   media item, if a media item is deleted the meta will be deleted with it but all
   other media items should be unaffected.
 * Maybe there’s a bug? Are you being told the index is incomplete after deleting
   media?
 *  Thread Starter [bigjake36](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigjake36/)
 * (@bigjake36)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-429/#post-7076867)
 * When you first run the plugin it indexes all the images!
    2) as you delete the
   dups the number goes down ( which is correct ) 3) exit out and go to pending 
   posts 4) delete posts and images – lets say 20 5) go into library and delete 
   an few more images 6) when you first indexed all the images with your plugin 
   it say’s example 900 images yet the system library say’s 800. 7) the only way
   to have these numbers match is to deactivate your plugin and then reactivate 
   it. The numbers then match with the library and your plugin. 8) Unless you deactivate
   and reactivate your plugin it never matches what the system is saying regarding
   the number of images on the site.
 * I hope this explains it better…
 *  [drywallbmb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drywallbmb/)
 * (@drywallbmb)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-429/#post-7076868)
 * It does, thank you! We’ll see if we can replicate this and if so get a fix included
   in the next release.
 *  [drywallbmb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drywallbmb/)
 * (@drywallbmb)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-429/#post-7076892)
 * Just issued a new release, let me know if you still encounter this bug — hopefully
   we’ve got it squashed.

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