Recover deleted image IDs

[Naveen]

Hi,

I have deleted few images and those ID linked from other sites return error and redirect to index page, this also hurts my seo. If I add new images, new image IDs are created.

Can I tweak the DB or script to add images to deleted image IDs instead of creating unique IDs? Also can I do the same for categories also.

Regards,
Naveen

[Naveen]

I am sure this is easy to do, can someone be kind and help?