# How to load all photos from Airtable on starting and make a offline slide show thereafter?

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** beginner\
**Created:** [August 26, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-load-all-photos-from-airtable-on-starting-and-make-a-offline-slide-show-thereafter/2563271 "2023-08-26T17:07:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhanushan48608nkfw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dhanushan48608nkfw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/dhanushan48608nkfw)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-load-all-photos-from-airtable-on-starting-and-make-a-offline-slide-show-thereafter/2563271/1 "2023-08-26T17:07:08Z")

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My app has an image component in the 1st screen. It has to change the picture every 5 seconds, But it has to load all the images(links) from Airtable on startup and should run offline thereafter.

I tried a way but not working

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-load-all-photos-from-airtable-on-starting-and-make-a-offline-slide-show-thereafter/2563271/2 "2023-08-26T17:59:15Z")

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I don’t think that’s possible.

Images stored in Airtable would need to be stored as urls (text strings). When you bring them into Thunkable, they will point to cloud-based locations. If the device goes offline, it won’t display those images.

The only way I can think to do this is to store the images as base64 text strings in Airtable, download all of the strings in Thunkable and then display them when needed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-load-all-photos-from-airtable-on-starting-and-make-a-offline-slide-show-thereafter/2563271/3 "2023-11-24T17:59:43Z")

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