Not complicated, very easy

Thank you for your great plugin. It works fine for me.

I had problems, but later I discovered the files that did not work were locked by another plugin.

Better than not having it all.... Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it goes through all the motions but doesn't actually replace image, sometimes it seems to forget to regenerate thumbnails. Can't find any rhyme or reason to it. I've had this same experience across many different sites over the years.

I install this plugin by default on all of my sites. Just one of those 'set it and forget it' plugins that tend to forget is even there since it feels like it should just be part of WP core. Really nice way to avoid a bloated media library with final.jpg, final-1.jpg, final-2.jpg, really-final.jpg, final-for-real-this-time.jpg, etc.

Also comes in very handy with files such as PDFs that might get indexed and appear highly in search results. This avoids that situation where you update a policy doc or something like that, but everyone keeps accessing the old version via Google.

I had dozens of images to replace and this made it sooooooo much faster! Those of us who spend hours in front of a computer making websites every day appreciate timesavers.

I am very cautious about adding new plugins because they can cause issues, so I only use a few. But I added this one and I'm glad I did. It also seems to be updated by the programmers fairly often, which gives me confidence. So far, no problems, only benefits. If that changes, I'll change my review :)

Note: It would be cool if they added a feature that automatically deleted the image you're replacing, even if you give the new one a different name. That would save even more time!

Works great except as per below.

• wont replace the image if the filename is the same as the one already present in WP. Will only replace the image if the filename is diferent and the "Replace the file, use the new file name, and update all links" option is selected.

This plugin was a real life saver. I replaced hundreds of oversized images on a large, old website with it. This plugin worked perfectly every time.

(To find the largest images on the website I also installed the plugin 'Media Library File Size' to sort images by file size.)

Whatever they did to their code base, it isnt working on both local and production site. The support is not really helpful (just random guesses).
Too bad, it was the number one replacement plugin but there are alternatives now which work without any problems.

This plugins provides what seems like such essential functionality that I hope Core adopts it. Until then, Enable Media Replace it is. The plugin developers are responsive to needs, requests, and issues.

Thanks for a great plugin!

Very useful plugin.