Sprites still shown after deleting Image Statements [SOLVED]

[Bug]

I'm curious why my sprites remain displayed in game (with the Show Statement) after their associated Image Statements have been deleted.
In other words, after deleting:

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image wolf 1 = "wolf.png"

And leaving:

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show wolf 1

The sprite still shows without error. Funky.

After deleting ALL image statements/definitions, almost all the sprites appeared, as normal.
Only one, that was recently added, was replaced with the placeholder-silhouette/image-name
A couple others caused this:

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File "renpy/common/00placeholder.rpy", line 194, in _duplicate
rv.name = list(args.name) + list(args.args)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

After ignoring the error, the placeholder is shown, but without the image name.

[Ocelot]

IIRC RenPy scans game folder and automatically defines images from file names. So wolf.png will define image wolf. And due to how image tags work, trying to show image wolf 1 when it does not exist will show image wolf instead.

[Bug]

IIRC RenPy scans game folder and automatically defines images from file names. So wolf.png will define image wolf. And due to how image tags work, trying to show image wolf 1 when it does not exist will show image wolf instead.

Many of the filenames and image tags do not match, and still appear nonetheless.
Sorry for the poor example.

[papiersam]

Try deleting persistent data and recompiling rpyc files (form the main interface). It could just be a caching thing.

[Bug]

Try deleting persistent data and recompiling rpyc files (form the main interface). It could just be a caching thing.

Gave it a shot, but to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion.

[papiersam]

Then your best bet is to start a fresh new project and move your code there. If the error persists, it's the code. If not, it's something else, probably specific to the project configuration.

[Bug]

Okay, turns out there was an old duplicate of the file containing image definitions.
Which explains why only new (missing) image definitions wouldn't appear.
This is exactly what I initially thought was causing this, but the file was tucked away—that is to say, I didn't look hard enough.
Guess I can't procrastinate reorganizing the game folder any longer.

Thanks again.