Title: Plugin not finding anything.
Last modified: March 14, 2019

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# Plugin not finding anything.

 *  Resolved [aspeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aspeagle/)
 * (@aspeagle)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-finding-anything/)
 * Well… she doesn’t seem to be finding any media down in /wp-content/uploads … 
   and doesn’t really give any meaning logging to help suss out why it’s not working.
 * Any ideas on how to get more debug out of this?

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 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-finding-anything/#post-11314877)
 * Some files are ignored:
    – index.php, – various hidden files, – WP generated 
   thumbnails – anything ending with for example -100×100.jpg.
 * If you add file directly to uploads directory (not through WordPress), and run“
   Scan Files” in this plugin, that new file should show up.
 * This plugin uses default “uploads” directory that itself WordPress uses, and 
   path can be seen highlighted on first page of this plugin.
 * Not sure what kind of debugging would be helpful here.
 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-finding-anything/#post-11314892)
 * It ignores those files ending image sizes (thumbnails) because those are automatically
   generated and shouldn’t be imported to Media Library.
 *  Plugin Author [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * (@erolsk8)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-finding-anything/#post-11371347)
 * Hi [@aspeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aspeagle/), I’m closing this
   task since there was not reply for 2 weeks.
 * And if you still need this, you can check this topic that might be related:
    
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-button-does-nothing/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-button-does-nothing/)
 * This plugin required “short_open_tag” to be turned on for PHP on server. But 
   I updated it now, so that it works even if short_open_tag is turned off.

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 * Last reply from: [erolsk8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erolsk8/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-finding-anything/#post-11371347)
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