Title: Images deleted from folder show as blanks in library, can Media Cleaner clean?
Last modified: August 22, 2025

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# Images deleted from folder show as blanks in library, can Media Cleaner clean?

 *  Resolved [jamminjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamminjames/)
 * (@jamminjames)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-deleted-from-folder-show-as-blanks-in-library-can-media-cleaner-clean/)
 * We had hundreds of images accidentally deleted from their media folders which
   show as blanks in the library and as missing files in the posts they were in.
   Can Media Cleaner clean those blanks out? I just scanned with the free version,
   including a “broken entries” scan, and it didn’t seem to find most of them.
    -  This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by [jamminjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamminjames/).

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 *  Plugin Support [Val Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valwa/)
 * (@valwa)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-deleted-from-folder-show-as-blanks-in-library-can-media-cleaner-clean/#post-18611445)
 * Hey [@jamminjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamminjames/)! 👋
 * The main goal of **Media Cleaner** is to delete media that isn’t used across 
   your website. If your issue is with media that has already been deleted, unfortunately,
   there’s nothing Media Cleaner can do about that.
 *  Thread Starter [jamminjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamminjames/)
 * (@jamminjames)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-deleted-from-folder-show-as-blanks-in-library-can-media-cleaner-clean/#post-18611509)
 * Okay, thanks.
 *  Plugin Support [Val Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valwa/)
 * (@valwa)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-deleted-from-folder-show-as-blanks-in-library-can-media-cleaner-clean/#post-18612318)
 * Hey [@jamminjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamminjames/)! 👋
   Just
   a note to make my previous message clearer: Media Cleaner can help you, but only
   to a certain extent.
 * If you want to delete library media entries that link to non-existent files, 
   a Media Library scan for broken entries will detect them so you can delete them
   from the dashboard. However, doing so will not clean your post content that references
   broken links — Media Cleaner only works with media entries/files directly, not
   with posts or content.
 * Hope this helps!

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 * Last reply from: [Val Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valwa/)
 * Last activity: [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-deleted-from-folder-show-as-blanks-in-library-can-media-cleaner-clean/#post-18612318)
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