I am using an external data source (postgreSQL) to store values in my glide app. In one of the tables, I have a column with urls of pictures I uploaded through glide (https://storage.googleapis.com/ (…)). Now that I want to see and download all those pictures to my computer, when I open the link they all say access denied. How can I retrieve those pictures? I have over 1200
Are these links still in Glide ?
Because Glide will delete these images from their Google storage if a link isn’t present in a Glide table for more than 30 days.
Note that images that go unused by any app for 30 days will be automatically purged. If you use the Image or File Picker Component to allow image uploads, but then delete the row in your data where that image is stored, the image will disappear.
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No, my app completely relies on external data sources.
If that’s the case, is there a way where I can make the file picker upload to a google drive or anything else? I am losing almost a year of data here
I don’t recommend using Google Drive for storage.
I would also recommend chat with Glide Team Support…
I mean as a secondary storage, I use S3 for my main storage but I need to use glide’s file picker and it won´t work with S3.
I have some apps where I use the Glide file picker to upload a file. I then send that file to a secure location outside of Glide and return the secure link back to the original Glide column that overwrites the original Glide link.
In my case, while I may still have a record of the original Glide link, that link stops working after about 4 weeks. When I overwrite the Glide link, that starts the timer to delete the file because the original Glide link is not in the Glide table.
It looks like your first screenshot of the Glide link is not in the Glide data editor, so I’m guessing that your process might be a lot like mine. If that’s the case, you might have a dead link because you’ve removed the Glide link from the Glide table.
I think the right way to keep image even after “deletion” would be to have an archives table containing only image links! That would work