# Advice setting up new Glide project
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571
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**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571 "2023-02-06T15:15:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/1 "2023-02-06T15:15:17Z")
Hello
So I have my first Glide Page working really well and am very pleased with it. The people using it have been very receptive.
So I would now like to push ahead and expand the app. My first attempt was mainly a learning exercise and trying out Glide. I now feel confident enough to take it forward.
I want to use it to manage a touring exhibition. It would be used to
- Display a list of objects that travel with the exhibition. Photos, insurance values, maintenance instructions etc
- For users to write condition reports for each object - with photos.
- Maintenance log for exhibition staff to log issues with the exhibition. This is the part that is already up and running.
- Sharing installation and dismantling schedules - and allowing museums to comment on them
- Crate list with sizes and weights that travel with the exhibition
All basic stuff and easy to do with a good database.
I have been running it all in 2 x separate Airtable databases for several months. 1 for Logistics (Schedules, maintenance log etc) and the other for creative (Objects). But I really need a good front end.
My problem is - as I have to connect the whole Airtable base to Glide - and there is a lot of info in there - I will smash through my 5GB limit (starter plan) very quickly. I won’t need to use most of the photos - only a select few.
I could set up a separate Airtable base and sync the data into it - then link that base to Glide - but it would be read only and I am trying to avoid having too many databases.
It would be nice if I could select in Glide which tables and views to sync - but I guess that is not likely to happen for a while - if ever.
Does anyone have any bright ideas? Seems a shame to have to upgrade to the $99 plan just so I can store data I don’t even need!
Andrew
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/3 "2023-02-06T16:04:39Z")
How many images do you have? 5GB is on average 2500 photos.
I would say that if your images are already stored in Airtable, then you can continue to use airtable’s storage as long as the url points to that external storage…BUT, since Airtable started expiring and reissuing link urls every few hours (which started in November), I think glide started taking over and actually stores your Airtable images in their storage. This is so the url remains stable when using it with glide. I’m not 100% sure though, so someone else will have to confirm or deny what I said. If that’s the case, then you wouldn’t be able to rely on Airtable to take the brunt of your existing image storage.
If images do stay in airtable’s storage, then it would work for the initial batch of data, but any future images uploaded through the app would still use Glide’s storage.
You could consider some kind of third party storage for all of your images, but that would mean new urls and updating those urls in your database. Plus you’d still have the issue of new images being stored in Glide’s storage (unless you build some outside service to transfer those images to a third party storage, and update the url in your table).
Other than that, I may have to yield to someone with more Airtable experience. I’m just not sure how glide handles airtable’s changing links.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/4 "2023-02-06T16:05:15Z")
@glide Explain how Glide handles changing Airtable images urls.
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### Author:  [@glide](https://community.glideapps.com/u/glide)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/5 "2023-02-06T16:05:23Z")
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When you connect an Airtable base to Glide, any images stored in Airtable will be automatically stored in Glide. This ensures that the images remain accessible to users of Glide projects, even if the Airtable URL expires. However, these attachments count toward your Glide team’s file storage quota. Exceeding your file storage quota can result in your Glide projects becoming inaccessible to users until you upgrade to a higher plan. Removing an Airtable base from your Glide team (e.g. by deleting projects that use it) will free up storage space within minutes, and unused attachments are removed from Glide within 72 hours. [Glide • Airtable](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/data-sources/airtable)
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/6 "2023-02-06T16:29:03Z")
Thanks Jeff
That’s exactly what I found - as soon as I imported my Airtable base - I ran out of storage space. It has a lot of images.
I like your idea of using an external storage solution for the images though as I think Glide only needs a URL to point to - so guess the image could be anywhere (except Airtable as those links expire).
Wonder if I can get Dropbox to work with it - and some automation from Make to get them into Dropbox 🤔
Maybe not - probably more trouble than its worth. Shame - I can’t justify to my client $99 p/month just for more storage 😢
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/7 "2023-02-06T16:37:10Z")
Dropbox may work, but glide advises against it. Same with google drive. It may work, but those services aren’t designed for something like hosting images for external usage. Especially on a large scale. I do use Google Drive for only a handful of images…and that’s only because I haven’t uploaded them to glide…yet. For me it works, but it is a much smaller scale in my case. In the past, others have eventually had problems with images becoming inaccessible periodically. I would recommend a service that’s designed for hosting and serving up images.
> **[Glide • Adding images](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/guides/core/adding-images#external-hosting)**
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> Learn how to add, host, and display images in Glide.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/8 "2023-02-06T16:42:35Z")
Thanks Jeff - appreciate it.
Need to have a rethink - the base I need to import from Airtable has 8GB of attachments so I would be over…
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/9 "2023-02-06T17:07:07Z")
Cloudinary might be a good solution, so I found this. Looks like it should store images in cloudinary and give you a url. You’ll just have to find a way to make the existing attachment column inaccessible to glide so it doesn’t try to take over your storage.
> **[No More Static URLs for Attachments?](https://community.airtable.com/t5/formulas/no-more-static-urls-for-attachments/m-p/50589/highlight/true#M3612)**
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> This post is in response to the 4/4/2022 email announcement titled “Changes to Airtable attachments” which announced that static URL’s will be going away. This has a HUGE and sadly dramatic affect on my application. I’m using Airtable to crowd-source...
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/10 "2023-02-06T17:16:22Z")
Jeff’s mention of Cloudinary reminded me of the below, which may be of interest.
> [@Upload multiple images to Cloudinary](https://community.glideapps.com/t/upload-multiple-images-to-cloudinary/13524):
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> Intro I thought I was going to publish my first app in the Template store but external sources like Cloudinary integration are not allowed in a template. So after hours spend you will instead see the app here. Upload multiple images to Cloudinary Try out version: URL: [https://multiupload.glideapp.io/](https://multiupload.glideapp.io/) The app is using my personal Cloudinary account - so please keep uploads in the app low - and use your own Cloudinary account if you are going to do exploration of cloudinary Backg…
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/11 "2023-02-06T17:55:57Z")
@Andrew_Davies
Hi Andrew.
You might get inspired by this post.
Cloudinary has an auto upload feature where images are automatically uploaded when used.
I had the image uploaded to glide then copied to cloudinary and then deleted the image in glide
Maybe you actually get all the images loaded to cloudinary directly from airtable if all the images were shown in glide first or potentially just creating a cloudinary link in airtable using auto upload
> [@Photo-location - and images AUTO-UPLOADED to Cloudinary](https://community.glideapps.com/t/photo-location-and-images-auto-uploaded-to-cloudinary/26936):
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> Main features Upload a photo to Glide and mark it with a location Auto-upload the photos to Cloudinary Resizing and other maniputations of the photo uploaded to Cloudinary Remove the photo from Glide View all the photos uploaded - and directly sourced from Cloudinary account Photo and location saved to both Glide Table and Google Sheets Idea Photo and location is inputted to the glide table “Input…” and data are copied to “Registrations” Photo and location is then cleared from …
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/12 "2023-02-06T20:12:56Z")
That’s great!!
Thanks so much for sharing. Great post and ever so useful
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/advice-setting-up-new-glide-project/57571/13 "2023-02-07T20:13:42Z")
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