# Unable to display pics from my google drive
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230 "2022-02-03T19:26:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/1 "2022-02-03T19:26:51Z")
hi
my images stored in my drive are not displayed and yet I shared the folder which contains the photos and the spreadsheet which contains the links of the photos my links are stored in this form:
[https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hYaH9QDkPzxCWhSTXUSL](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hYaH9QDkPzxCWhSTXUSL1HwsL)
what else i can do ?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/2 "2022-02-03T20:32:27Z")
Your link doesn’t work:
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### Author:  [@ninja\_x](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ninja_x)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/3 "2022-02-04T04:37:04Z")
Yeah your right @tatiang The link does not work for me too…
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/4 "2022-02-04T05:33:57Z")
hi
indeed the link does not work because I deliberately shortened it because of all the images I want to view only two are displayed even though they are stored in the same place and I use the same type of link to to access
[https://community.thunkable.com/t/display-image-using-url/58172](https://community.thunkable.com/t/display-image-using-url/58172)
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/5 "2022-02-04T05:34:08Z")
hi
indeed the link does not work because I deliberately shortened it because of all the images I want to view only two are displayed even though they are stored in the same place and I use the same type of link to to access
> [@Display image using url](https://community.thunkable.com/t/display-image-using-url/58172):
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> I am trying to develop an app wherein i am suppose to display image output based on user input. I will change image output based by changing url. However when i try to run the app, image does not display from specified url. All I get is blank screen. Please refer attached snap of my blocks. Where am i going wrong?
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### Author:  [@ninja\_x](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ninja_x)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/6 "2022-02-04T05:40:02Z")
> ohh ok @bibbi.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/7 "2022-02-04T06:09:45Z")
Without a valid url, I have no way to figure out why it isn’t working for you.
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### Author:  [@ninja\_x](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ninja_x)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/8 "2022-02-04T08:33:05Z")
> [@tatiang](#):
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> Without a valid url, I have no way to figure out why it isn’t working for you
Yep…
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/9 "2022-02-04T17:05:22Z")
hi
it is said google drive isn’t the best place to store pic to share
I insist this link I voluntarily shortened it it works when it is in full as well as another image on the other hand all the other images that I have in the same folder are not displayed when I create the links of the same way
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/10 "2022-02-04T17:16:24Z")
> [@bibbi](#):
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> it is said google drive isn’t the best place to store pic to share
We have an integration with Cloudinary, which might be a better fit, depending on the type of app you want to build.
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> [@bibbi](#):
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> I want to view only two are displayed even though they are stored in the same place and I use the same type of link to to access
The format of the link you shared above seems to be incorrect:
> [@bibbi](#):
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> stored in this form:
> [https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hYaH9QDkPzxCWhSTXUSL](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hYaH9QDkPzxCWhSTXUSL)
in the [post you’ve quoted](https://community.thunkable.com/t/display-image-using-url/58172/9) it recommends using `export=download` rather than view, and also your ID only has 21 characters in it but any Google Drive IDs I’ve looked at have 33. It’s possible the ID you’re using is for a folder rather than a file. I used this option to find the full ID:
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/11 "2022-02-04T18:58:28Z")
hi
thanks for your answer but as i said above this link i shortened it
this link works when it is full
I wanted to show the form of the link I am using
what amazes me is that the form of link I use works for two images among many others
cloudinary ? why not but I wanted to put everything together some scripts I use and the data
update : in preview mode and in android i can see the pic given in the example but not mine
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/12 "2022-02-05T08:53:06Z")
> [@bibbi](#):
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> I wanted to show the form of the link I am using
Can you share the original Google drive link to the same image?
Let us take things step by step.
First the original share link and if this works then we see the **shortened** link.
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/13 "2022-02-05T10:22:55Z")
hi
it works after hours of manipulation using the same type of link but I placed the images in the root whereas before the files were placed in a folder on my drive (the folder was shared)
thank you for your reply
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 10:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-display-pics-from-my-google-drive/1714230/14 "2022-05-06T10:23:20Z")
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