# Media disappears from my local data source after app update

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** bugs\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292 "2020-09-15T14:19:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 15, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292/1 "2020-09-15T14:19:08Z")

</div>

Hello,

I built a diary app with photos and records saved to the local storage data source.  
the user can scroll through a list and pick the past photo and record.  
everything works fine until I upload a new version of my app.  
when I do that the media disappears from the data source and as a user I cannot watch it anymore.  
this thing doesn’t happen with text which remains the same after the update.  
just to make it clear I haven’t change anything in the data source between the updates - the table should be the same with the written data on it.

is it a known bug?  
is there something to do to make this work?

thank you!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ozel1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ec8ea/32.png) [@ozel1978](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ozel1978)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 9:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292/2 "2020-10-14T09:09:40Z")

</div>

i am doing simple thing also not work. not sure what going on.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![tony.ycy.program](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tony.ycy.program/32/100153_2.png) [@tony.ycy.program](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tony.ycy.program)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292/3 "2021-07-06T15:14:14Z")

</div>

I made a similar app 1 month ago, but it is more troublesome. If you want to know, please contact me: [app97204+thunker@gmail.com](mailto:app97204+thunker@gmail.com)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![vishruth-ram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/82dd89/32.png) [@vishruth-ram](https://community.thunkable.com/u/vishruth-ram)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292/4 "2021-09-01T04:50:56Z")

</div>

Local\_storage has a key which cannot be added so try using Local\_DB

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/media-disappears-from-my-local-data-source-after-app-update/819292/5 "2024-11-08T12:22:05Z")

</div>