Dawn Theme, images disappear

Topic summary

Images added to a Shopify Dawn theme are disappearing from the multicolumn section and from product images after about a week. In the theme editor, the images no longer appear and must be re-added; switching to different images doesn’t prevent the issue.

Details provided:

  • Affects: multicolumn section and product images.
  • Timing: images remain for ~1 week, then vanish.
  • Mitigation tried: re-uploading and changing images; issue persists.
  • Evidence: a screenshot was attached illustrating the problem.

Current response and next steps:

  • A respondent requested the website URLs to investigate further.

Status:

  • Unresolved/ongoing. No root cause or fix identified yet.
  • Awaiting the site URLs and additional diagnostic information to proceed.
Summarized with AI on January 1. AI used: gpt-5.

I am having an issue where images I load into a multicolumn are there for maybe a week and then disappear, when I go back into theme they are not there at all I have to re add them, doesn’t matter on the image I change it to a different one and still not there, I also have this issue product images

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hey @sallie1978 share the URLs of your website plz
best regard
MUSTUFA

Hi,

Hope this will help

  • Images are likely disappearing because the theme is losing its link to the files.

  • The most common causes are theme version changes, deleted or replaced files in the File Library, an app interfering with image loading or a corrupted multicolumn section.

Solution:

  • Try re-adding a new multicolumn section and check that the original images still exist under Content > Files,
  • Disable any image related apps and make sure you’re customizing the correct theme version.