Title: Image Duplicates
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Image Duplicates

 *  [bamboozled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamboozled/)
 * (@bamboozled)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-duplicates/)
 * I have two questions and both are about using images on a wordpress site. I have
   searched the forums but have not seen any advice specifically addressing my issues.
 * I use wordpress to run websites for the college classes that I teach. Several
   assignments involve having students upload photos. This most recent semester 
   there was some confusion about this process in one of my classes. As a result
   I had a number of students upload multiple copies of the same photo.The problem
   is that these duplicates are all “attached” to a post so I can’t just filter 
   and delete by “unattached” in the media library. While they are “attached” to
   a post they are not actually inserted or used into the post. With about 60 students
   this ended up meaning a lot of extra server space is being taken up with these
   duplicates. I would really appreciate any advice as to the best way to delete
   these duplicate copies.
 * My other question is about photos that link to the original full size photo. 
   Often students would upload original images that are 3mb+ in size. These get 
   scaled down to insert into posts but the smaller photos you can click on and 
   they take you to a full-size original. I would like to remove the originals to
   make backups easier and smaller. I would just delete originals but I would much
   rather not have broken links. Ideally I would just like the photos not to link
   to one that is the larger size. Again, any ideas for a solution to this would
   be much appreciated.
 * Thanks in advance for any advice!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-duplicates/#post-2122523)
 * > I would really appreciate any advice as to the best way to delete these duplicate
   > copies.
 * You will have to edit theme one-by-one via the Media Library.
 * > I would like to remove the originals to make backups easier and smaller.
 * The only way to do that is to re-upload all of the (smaller) originals again.
 *  Thread Starter [bamboozled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamboozled/)
 * (@bamboozled)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-duplicates/#post-2122783)
 * Thanks for your prompt response! At least I can make some changes to future assignments
   in order to insure that these issues don’t arise again.

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## Tags

 * [duplicates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicates/)
 * [file size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-size/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)

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 * Last reply from: [bamboozled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamboozled/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-duplicates/#post-2122783)
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