# The image link keeps dropping **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [January 17, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547 "2020-01-17T16:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mom7667yafy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mom7667yafy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mom7667yafy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/1 "2020-01-17T16:41:54Z")
![20200118_013008](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/6/9/69ca564d059583cf0a658d35416f8b9cace9f2e1.jpeg) I didn’t touch anything. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/2 "2020-01-17T16:44:38Z")
Do you have a copy of this project? Is this happening in the copy? I always make copies as I work so that I have a backup in case anything goes wrong. You may need to get in touch with Thunkable staff and give them a link to your project if you’re having these technical issues (this one and the replaced variables you posted about today). ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/chris/32/78883_2.png) [@Chris](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/3 "2020-01-17T17:00:58Z")
The same earlier happened to a project of mine too… I think it is a bug in the platform. Did you try to replace the pre-set empty fields with text fields containing your pictures name? Generally I don’t recommend using the pre-set (lighter colored) fields. Always replace them with real ones to avoid issues. It would be helpful if you could share a copy of your project and [file a bug report](http://community.thunkable.com/t/report-bugs-and-submit-feature-requests-in-our-public-github-repository/31760) Best, Chris ---
**Author:** ![mom7667yafy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mom7667yafy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mom7667yafy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/4 "2020-01-17T17:01:17Z")
![20200118_014911](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/4/0433917d92026e791445900a530667a8326d65f4.jpeg) Originally it should be Is this a bug I should contact the thunkable staff? ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/chris/32/78883_2.png) [@Chris](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/5 "2020-01-17T17:04:08Z")
As I mentioned before it would be great if you could file a short report on this via the link I provided above. For now you could try to replace the light green blocks with a testblock containing the file name. Because I think the error will persist and come again sooner or later. Best, Chris ---
**Author:** ![mom7667yafy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mom7667yafy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mom7667yafy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/6 "2020-01-17T17:42:52Z")
The bug is obvious. Now the link is broken every time I open it. And it happens in every block. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Coglitore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Daniel\_Coglitore](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Daniel_Coglitore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/7 "2020-01-17T18:21:19Z")
The same happens to me , what is best to do is to follow @Chris advice and use the text component as we originally used to do ---
**Author:** ![mom7667yafy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mom7667yafy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mom7667yafy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/8 "2020-01-17T18:28:06Z")
What is Chris’s advice? Is there a workaround? replace the light green blocks with a testblock containing the file name. What does this mean specifically? I didn’t understand ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Coglitore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Daniel\_Coglitore](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Daniel_Coglitore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/9 "2020-01-17T18:43:25Z")
exactly use the “Text block” and there introduce the name of the picture, if the picture is stored on the app you can simple write the name of the picture exactly as is in the assets and if is an url just put the url And an advantage with this is that you can make a list with all the Images name ordered so if the users is on level 1 , you use the get in list component and get the first image wich it would be the level 1 image name so you dont have to repeat this blocks for each level Imagine how many blocks you would get when you reach level 100… ---
**Author:** ![dlmetzgerbcch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dlmetzgerbcch](https://community.thunkable.com/u/dlmetzgerbcch)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/10 "2020-01-21T02:47:28Z")
Thanks so much, this is a perfect workaround to my problem. I had actually submitted this to Github. > > > My app shows a small Canadian or US flag picture in an image component on opening a screen, depending on whether... ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Rogulla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Michael\_Rogulla](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Michael_Rogulla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/11 "2020-01-21T09:54:43Z")
I have a suspicion, that this happens when a name of a picture contains underscores or hyphen! One solution is to store the name of the picture (=filename) in a variable or a LocalDB! @mom7667yafy ---
**Author:** ![dlmetzgerbcch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dlmetzgerbcch](https://community.thunkable.com/u/dlmetzgerbcch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/12 "2020-01-22T06:05:43Z")
That may be, but my image names that kept getting dropped were simple “canada.png” and “usa.png”. ---
**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, 11:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/the-image-link-keeps-dropping/413547/13 "2024-11-08T11:45:55Z")