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apparently for the new year, wordpress created a new subdirectory(s) '2013/01' in the wp-content/uploads folder. this had the unintended result of breaking all the image links on the site. Does anyone know how to turn this off or stop it from happening? I fixed it by simply copying from an existing 2012 sub.

thanks in advance,

Russ Vergin

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How can a new directory breaks the pages? Can you be more precise please? – Kuldeep Daftary Jan 3 at 15:40
just the image links are broken. if you right mouse click the image .. then 'copy the image URL' it shows the NEW subdirectory path for the image, not the directory originally set up. also keep in mind this directory did not exist in 2012 – Russ Vergin Jan 3 at 15:50
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Do you see that problem with the default theme and with plugins disabled? Only new images should be stored in/linked to that directory, not old ones. – s_ha_dum Jan 3 at 15:52
plugins disabled makes no difference. in any case why would wordpress: 1. create a subdirectory automatically? and 2. now assume that all my images are now located there? – Russ Vergin Jan 3 at 16:09
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You can turn that behavior off from Media Settings in Dash board. Just uncheck "Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders" – Kuldeep Daftary Jan 3 at 16:16
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