Images folder location in containerized Vision 8.1

sherman · December 13, 2025, 9:09pm

When running in a containerized version of Ignition 8.1, does anyone know where I can find the images folder absolute path that I can access with the Vision Images widget?

I need to transfer things into a tmp folder there so I can show them in client, but I can not find the absolute path inside of the designer (right click copy path gets only the relative path…), so while I recursively scrape all of the filestructure and look for it I thought I’d ask here.

Currently scraping my /usr/local/bin/ignition/ folder, but I don’t have awesome tooling for that so its akin to shooting in the dark.

paul-griffith · December 13, 2025, 10:58pm

In 8.1 (and all prior Ignition versions) images in 'Image Management' are stored inside the internal database; for most of the recent past that means a SQLite file, config.idb, on disk.
While machine extraction is possible, you should not do it at runtime.

If you just want to dump all the images out of a GWBK (easily), you can use Kindling to do so with a nicer graphical interface.

Or you can do it yourself using SQLite - the table is literally IMAGES:

github.com/inductiveautomation/kindling

src/main/kotlin/io/github/inductiveautomation/kindling/idb/ImagesTab.kt

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          private class ImageRow(
              val path: String,
              val type: ImageFormat,
              val description: String?,
              val connection: Connection,
          ) {
              override fun toString(): String = "ImageRow(path='$path', type=$type, description=$description)"
          
              fun inputStream(): InputStream = connection.prepareStatement(
                  "SELECT data FROM images WHERE path = ?",
              ).apply {
                  setString(1, path)
              }.executeQuery().use { rs ->
                  rs.next()
                  rs.getBinaryStream("data")
              }
          
              val data: ByteArray by lazy {
                  inputStream().use { it.readBytes() }
              }

(In 8.3 this is all moot, as images are actually stored on disk, though still within the 'resource' storage format we use inside Ignition, so there's extra metadata 'attached' to files besides just the image file).