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What happens to deleted images?
Just out of curiosity, I've observed when an image is deleted for whatever infraction, it disappears from the movie gallery, but the URL image itself still remains so if you have kept it, the image is still accesible directly to its URL.
What's the purpose of this IMDb policy?
Are they kept just in case...? I've never seen a deleted image return to live.
Are they ever deleted definitely for good at some point, or are they kept indefinitely in this storage? If so, for how long are they kept til they're finally erased?
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dan_dassow
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2 years ago
@Tonio_Fraga ,
IMDb is a very large database. Once an image is removed from a gallery, it may still be available in other galleries or there may be latent references to that image elsewhere. Regardless, it may take a few hours to days for the link to an image to no longer work.
The IMDb poll community frequently runs into missing images in lists and polls. This can be problematic.
An IMDb staff member may be able to offer additional information regarding this matter.
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Peter_pbn
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2 years ago
I think there is a distinction between an image that is deleted after being reported and one that disappears from a gallery after a name or title tag is removed from the image. If I report an image, it seems to be deleted as soon as the report is approved. I don't know if there is a process to delete images that are left without any name or title tags.
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