# Our project safe from Airtable updates?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/our-project-safe-from-airtable-updates/55702
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [December 13, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/our-project-safe-from-airtable-updates/55702 "2022-12-13T17:55:40Z")
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### Author: ![patrick.roomlift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@patrick.roomlift](https://community.glideapps.com/u/patrick.roomlift)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/our-project-safe-from-airtable-updates/55702/1 "2022-12-13T17:55:40Z")

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Hi all,

We’ve built a Customer App that allows users to upload photos that connects to our separate Designer App by using relations columns and a rel/working tab – they fill out a form, upload their photo, and when they hit “Save,” it adds a new row to the Photos spreadsheet that is Row Owner assigned to them through their Order Number.

They can go back and edit / view / delete their photos as well.

 ![IMG_9764.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/5/e/5e821315f8e1d1b4fa6f44fa770b57470e8d82de.jpeg)  
 ![IMG_9765.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/b/d/bd9544366cb4916a85865bc2c8626c016bec1970.jpeg)  
 ![IMG_9767.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/d/0d3bfdeea8108b61239ea4362c2fced85ae2e728.jpeg)

Airtable just released an update saying that photos will be introducing expired links, and will no longer be allowed to be “displayed” from their spreadsheets after 2 hours. Glide let us know, but said they would move photos to a Glide table instead.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-12-13 at 12.52.31 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/a/8a1f5699dd4fe710cdcd79f3289998d423eaa588.png)

Are we safe from this update, or will Airtable make it impossible to display photos?  
Do I need to set up a new Glide table with the same function, or will Glide do this for us?

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/our-project-safe-from-airtable-updates/55702/2 "2022-12-13T20:02:29Z")

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Images uploaded through glide are stored in glide’s storage. Only the url is written to the table. Since a url is just text, I doubt airtable would be updating data in your table without your knowledge. I assume the expiring links issue would only affect images stored in airtable’s storage.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/our-project-safe-from-airtable-updates/55702/3 "2022-12-14T20:02:54Z")

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