acquia cloud - images in content break, different path local vs cloud/server
Implement a directory redirect on your local environment's web server so that any request for /files/*  gets redirected to /sites/default/files/*

For example in Apache,  edit the httpd-vhosts.conf

&lt;VirtualHost *&gt;
  ServerName yourservername
  DocumentRoot "pathtoyourdocroot"
  Redirect /files /sites/default/files
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;