{"id":897,"date":"2024-05-07T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/the-image-is-not-being-replaced-instead-it-gets-downloaded-to-my-computer-why\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:47","password":"","slug":"the-image-is-not-being-replaced-instead-it-gets-downloaded-to-my-computer-why","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/the-image-is-not-being-replaced-instead-it-gets-downloaded-to-my-computer-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The image is not being replaced. Instead, it gets downloaded to my computer. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t We have seen this in very specific cases: pressing the &#8220;Upload&#8221; button after selecting the image to be uploaded, would <strong>download <\/strong>the image to the computer instead of doing the actual replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-YyT9dBfoQD.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t This behaviour is actually a conflict with another plugin: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/woo-product-attachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Product Attachment for WooCommerce<\/a>. Deactivating it will restore the correct functionality of Enable Media Replace.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t If you encounter the same issue but don&#8217;t have the aforementioned plugin, please deactivate all plugins except Enable Media Replace. Then, activate them one by one until you find which one is the problematic one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen this in very specific cases: pressing the &#8220;Upload&#8221; button after selecting the image to be uploaded, would download the image to the computer instead of doing the actual replacement. This behaviour is actually a conflict with another plugin: Product Attachment for WooCommerce. Deactivating it will restore the correct functionality of Enable Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[39],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-897","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-enable-media-replace"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":91,"total_views":"1069","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Enable Media Replace","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/enable-media-replace\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/897\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}