Media items, which have already been uploaded, disappear when the upload dialog box is closed and then opened again.

[shamayel007]

I followed the following steps and got this error:

1) Freshly created a new WordPress site.

2) Created a new page and opened it in the block editor

3) Added a new gallery block

4) Clicked "Media Library"

5) Uploaded new images

6) Uploaded 20 images

7) Closed the dialogue box and opened it back up.

8) Selected a few images and clicked "Create a new gallery"

9) After it went to the "Edit Gallery" window, I closed it by clicking the cross button

10) Clicked "Media Library" again to create the Gallery block

11) Selected photos again and clicked "Create a new gallery"

12) When it again went to the Edit Gallery window, I clicked "Add to gallery"

13) Shows "No media items found", even though I have a lot of images uploaded.

Here are my setup details:
i) OS: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
ii) Using Local by Flywheel
iii) Web server: Nginx
iv) PHP Version: 8.1.9
v) MySQL: 8.0.16
vi) WordPress: 6.1.1
vii) Browser: Opera

[shamayel007]

Shows "No media items found" even when a lot of images are already uploaded.

[ironprogrammer]

Thank you for the detailed report, @shamayel007! I'm marking this ticket for reproduction testing.

[dariak]

Reproduction Report

I have been trying to reproduce the issue, and probably we need to clarify the expected result and behaviour. The behaviour, which I got, is also not clear to me.

Environment

• OS: macOS 13.1
• Web Server: Nginx
• PHP: 7.4.1
• WordPress: 6.1.1
• Browser: Chrome 109
• Theme: Twenty Twenty-Two

Active Plugins: none
(I used Local to build a clean WordPress environment).

Actual Results

• Go to create new page.
• Insert Gallery block.
• Click Media Library.
• Upload 3 JPEG images.
• Choose 1 image and click "Create a new gallery".
• Close the popup by clicking X.
• Click Media Library in the Gallery block -> you are in "Edit gallery", which is empty (I would expect it to be empty).
• Click "Add to gallery" in the left side menu -> you see Media library with 3 uploaded images.
• Choose 1 image and click "Create a new gallery".
• Close the popup by clicking X.
• Click Media Library in the Gallery block -> you are in "Edit gallery", which is empty (I would expect it to be empty).
• Click "Add to gallery" in the left side menu -> you see Media library with only 2 uploaded images.
• Choose 2 images and click "Create a new gallery".
• Close the popup by clicking X.
• Click Media Library in the Gallery block -> you are in "Edit gallery", which is empty (I would expect it to be empty).
• Click "Add to gallery" in the left side menu -> you see Media library which is empty.

I suppose this is the problem.

• However, now close the popup by clicking X.
• Click Media Library in the Gallery block -> you are in "Edit gallery", which is empty (I would expect it to be empty).
• Click "Add to gallery" in the left side menu -> you see Media library with 3 images.