# Get saved photos from localbdb **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [August 18, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808 "2020-08-18T18:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oreeldadln](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/oreeldadln/32/89185_2.png) [@oreeldadln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/oreeldadln)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/1 "2020-08-18T18:19:40Z")
hello, I don’t think it should be that complicated but I’m not managing to make it. I’m trying to retrieve photos that I saved in a row to the local DB. what is the way to do it? I tried with different variables but nothing I tried has been working so far. I would really appreciate your help. thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/2 "2020-08-19T04:57:12Z")
Local dB is for text values only, I believe. Perhaps @actech or @Domhnall have more insight into how the LocalDB works. It’s basically a text based spreadsheet, right? You could though, save the photo to a stored variable I think. Recall it that way. You do mean a photo the user takes, right? @oreeldadln ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/3 "2020-08-19T07:48:11Z")
Jared said it correctly. In LocalDB you can save a text link to an image or the image itself in base64 text format ---
**Author:** ![oreeldadln](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/oreeldadln/32/89185_2.png) [@oreeldadln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/oreeldadln)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/4 "2020-08-19T14:38:14Z")
I did mean for photos I taking as a user. I’m creating a diary with the list viewer component in which a click on the item opens a page that needs to show - picture/record/note. as you can see in the attached picture it did save the picture I took to the local DB and showed it in the list viewer. if it saved and shown shouldn’t be a way to take it from the local DB that for sure saved it and show it on the picture page? what am I missing here? ![IMG_4303](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/c/9/c9fee29cdd139669dd42f5922e670a0e32cd0e19.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/5 "2020-08-20T12:19:34Z")
What prevents you from taking a value from a table and displaying it on another screen? ---
**Author:** ![oreeldadln](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/oreeldadln/32/89185_2.png) [@oreeldadln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/oreeldadln)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/6 "2020-08-20T13:01:34Z")
none of the block i’m using are making the photo appear… ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/7 "2020-08-20T15:47:46Z")
This is a bit surprising, because I made an example without problems. You wrote that you can add a camera shot to the DataSource and show it in the Data Viewer List. If so, then you can take it and display it on the second screen. ![изображение](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/d/9/d923f2ab10ffefe7509164e58b714f8d2c20adb5.png) ---
**Author:** ![oreeldadln](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/oreeldadln/32/89185_2.png) [@oreeldadln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/oreeldadln)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/8 "2020-08-20T21:05:24Z")
amazing! it works with photos. but with audio records it doesn’t. do you know how to make it work also? ---
**Author:** ![oreeldadln](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/oreeldadln/32/89185_2.png) [@oreeldadln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/oreeldadln)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/9 "2020-08-20T21:19:24Z")
nevermind it’s working with the record also. thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-saved-photos-from-localbdb/751808/10 "2024-11-08T12:24:41Z")