Media path not updated after renaming the media item in Sitecore 7

Question

We are using Sitecore 7 SP1.

I have renamed a media folder, both its item & display name. The item with the image field still shows the media path with the old name, but somehow the image is displayed in the field.

When I click to browse for the image field, it points to the correct image in the tree. On clicking OK, the correct path then reflects in the image field.

I tried database relinking, clearing cache and also indexing. No luck.

Is this a bug?

Before Renaming:

After Renaming

Answer 1

It's normal behaviour (and likely one of the reasons why this was later changed).

Back then, Sitecore stored a media item with an XML structure that looked like this:

<image mediaid="{D7F0E23E-5B28-4CDF-B75B-B9C9DE0C3088}" mediapath="/Project/Components/2 Column Portfolio Listing" src="~/media/D7F0E23E5B284CDFB75BB9C9DE0C3088.ashx" />

So it included a Media Path. Renaming the Media Item would not forcibly go to all Image fields that referred the Media Item and update this path. But by and large, when generating the link, the updated information (and therefore path) would take effect.

I don't know exactly when this changed, but Sitecore 7.2 doesn't store it like this. It stores the media id only; like <image mediaid="{A0C1DCFD-3D90-478F-864F-D448D9467ABB}" />