I woke up today to find that my images were not display when I went to add them to a new article on my website, though any images that had already been posted were still displaying correctly. Upon further inspection I found that the image manager seemed to have started a fresh dir:
http://www.WEBSITE.com/cnru/data/upimages/ADMINUSERNAME
Previously it would have pointed everything to:
http://www.WEBSITE.com/cnru/data/upimages
In other words the system has created a new images directory from scratch based on my username, despite there being no changes to ANY files (config still points to just /upimages etc.) or the database.
I copied my existing images over to the new DIR so I could access them again but would love to know why this happened and how I can remove my admin username and point it all back to the default image DIRs?
