# Image Management Upload ,What file path is it stored to?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2024, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/image-management-upload-what-file-path-is-it-stored-to/98185 "2024-11-05T07:28:36Z")\
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Image Management Upload ,What file path is it stored to?

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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Sueur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Samuel\_Sueur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Samuel_Sueur)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/image-management-upload-what-file-path-is-it-stored-to/98185/2 "2024-11-05T12:11:37Z")

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Hi,

I'm afraid those are not stored on the file system (yet? they might when 8.3 comes around).

They are stored in Ignition's internal DB.

> **[Image Management Tool | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/designer/designer-tools/image-management-tool#exporting-and-importing-images-in-projects)**
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> Images such as PNGs, JPGs, GIFs, and SVGs can be uploaded to the Image Management Tool and used inside of windows in Ignition. Once uploaded, these images may be used on windows and in templates. The Image Manager tool, available from the Tools \>...

See above where the documentation explains this.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/image-management-upload-what-file-path-is-it-stored-to/98185/3 "2024-11-05T16:01:48Z")

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> [@Samuel\_Sueur](#):
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> they might when 8.3 comes around)

They will be, yes.