[Mediawiki-l] Problem: Ghosts of old uploads

[Dan Carlson]

This past week, our database was erased during an upgrade of the 
MediaWiki software gone awry.  We've managed to restore everything from 
backup and things are running pretty smoothly now.

However, there's one problem that I haven't figured out how to solve: 
because the database backup we've restored from is several weeks old, 
the database thinks that there are several uploaded files that were 
already deleted after the backup was made.  That means the files are 
gone from the actual upload directory, but they're still present in the 
database.

How can I delete the records from the database without screwing up the 
links?

Thanks,
Dan Carlson
http://memoryalpha.st-minutiae.com/