{"id":948,"date":"2024-05-07T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/error-file-error-file-could-not-be-loaded-with-this-id\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:39:47","password":"","slug":"error-file-error-file-could-not-be-loaded-with-this-id","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/error-file-error-file-could-not-be-loaded-with-this-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Error &#8220;File Error. File could not be loaded with this ID&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you optimize an image with ShortPixel Image Optimizer, you may receive the message&nbsp;&#8220;File Error. File could not be loaded with this ID ( Attachment ID XXX )&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This error message usually appears when there is an entry in the Media Library, but the file does not exist or is corrupted.&nbsp;A quick solution to this problem is to use a plugin like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/enable-media-replace\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Enable Media Replace<\/a>&nbsp;to replace the missing images with new ones. ShortPixel should then automatically detect the new image and optimize it along with the thumbnails. If that doesn&#8217;t help, <strong>for a<\/strong><strong>ll possible causes and troubleshooting methods, please read this article:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/204-why-some-of-the-images-and-or-thumbnails-cannot-be-optimized\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why some or all of the images cannot be optimized?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you optimize an image with ShortPixel Image Optimizer, you may receive the message&nbsp;&#8220;File Error. File could not be loaded with this ID ( Attachment ID XXX )&#8221;. This error message usually appears when there is an entry in the Media Library, but the file does not exist or is corrupted.&nbsp;A quick solution to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[37],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-948","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":118,"total_views":"654","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":"ShortPixel Image Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/948\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}