I have exported all my products to add article numbers in google sheets. Then I importet them back. I just realized that only the main image of each product has been imported, all other images are missing. After this issue I tried something: I added a second picture to a particular product > export…

Ok so I know I’m a little late to the party but I thought I’d bring to the table a solution that works perfectly and won’t require any additional apps or hours of re-uploading images to your file repository and re-linking to your products, I had exactly the same issue described in this post, I expor…

I’m having the same issue! :frowning: Anyone know why Shopify no longer recognizes the links to the secondary images?

Hi! I know what my problem was. I uploaded the product pictures on the product pages. They are lost when you export these producta. You have to upload your pictures on the general pictures section in shopify: https://accounts.shopify.com/store-login?redirect=settings%2Ffiles By doing this, every …

[image] Christin: Hi! I know what my problem was. I uploaded the product pictures on the product pages. They are lost when you export these producta. You have to upload your pictures on the general pictures section in shopify: https://accounts.shopify.com/store-login?redirect=settings%2Ffiles …

Just a note, we have an app that will allow you to locate missing images, also has a new feature that checks variants for images. It is called Image Audit, you can look into it if you want to see how it can work for you. Image Audit on Shopify App Store Thanks

I’m having this same issue, however I’m sourcing images from a different website host (Dropbox). Do I really need to download all of those tons of images and re-upload them into Shopify? This will take hours and I’d prefer just to keep using the “Add media from URL” method…anyone have a fix?

@PaulCarlisle Thank you for this tip. You saved me hours of work finding and restoring images.

Thank You Very Much PaulCarlisle for sharing with us the solution… You saved me.

Why are additional product images not importing from my CSV file?

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Christin October 31, 2019, 5:07pm 4

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Why are additional product images not importing from my CSV file?

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