# Show an image from external location

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-an-image-from-external-location/12172>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-an-image-from-external-location/12172 "2016-09-26T22:35:24Z")\
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> [@AlThePal](#):
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> Remember that this path has to be valid for every client you are trying to access the picture from.

@pylkov.s  
The path isn't valid because your designer, running on the local Windows system, doesn't know what to do with the `/home/` path. You would need to use a multiple operating system compatible path, or another workaround - such as storing and displaying images from the database. See [this post](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-image-component-based-off-of-newest-image-in-a-directory/14972) for one example.

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