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Microsoft Lists, bad links at pictures
About a year ago, I created a list in Microsoft Lists and filled a "Picture" column with photos. It's now located at https://lists.live.com/. The images stopped displaying in March 2025 and several times before that. Only a placeholder image with an ID (e.g., "https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/5a9a22e9-7005-4772-a54f-9ca6434db3bb?platform=QnA") is shown. The problem occurs in the browser (Chrome), in the Lists desktop application, and in the Android app. I've tried it on three PCs and two mobile devices, and the problem appears the same everywhere. I suspect there's something wrong with the link between the image in the list and the Microsoft server. How can this problem be solved?
When clicking on a corrupt picture/link I end in a new browser tab showing this:
{ "error": { "code": "invalidRequest", "message": "Invalid request" } }
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Hi DaveMehr365 ,
thanks a lot for your reply!
Of course, I will gladly provide everything needed to get a solution on this problem.
This is how the first lines of the list looks like:
This is from an opened element:
This is after clicking on the picture from the element above, a new browser-tab is opened, showing this:The complete link to the new tab from above (I call it "corrupt link":
https://lists.live.com/_api/v2.1/drives/b!hYXdDh2z5EKwM3QF3qCgKHfqEkRr9RJGp3speqhZkMKBZQCkqLC_T75K9bSxrpkl/items/01GXJ7JBNQQ7Y4D34TBZF3G3VEIYEKS7E3/thumbnails/0/c3000x2000/content?prefer=noredirect%2Cclosestavailablesize&cb=1&s=L3BlcnNvbmFsLzM3ZDRjZGRmMDlhMzQ1MTgvTGlzdHMvSW52ZW50YXJsaXN0ZXxGb3RvfDE
If I add an new element+picture, it works fine:Clicked picture:
Full "working link":
https://ukwest1-mediap.svc.ms/transform/thumbnail?provider=spo&farmid=205080&inputFormat=jpg&cs=fFNQTw&docid=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.microsoftpersonalcontent.com%2Fpersonal%2F37d4cddf09a34518%2F_api%2Fv2.1%2Fsites%2F0edd8585-b31d-42e4-b033-7405dea0a028%2C4412ea77-f56b-4612-a77b-297aa85990c2%2Flists%2Fd3a54b7d-2a5d-4d3f-bfed-0371deb13113%2Fitems%2F4fea3af0-0e87-4ea4-ab9c-7398f9e87e36%2Fattachments%2F219c61f9-b5ca-4270-b93a-a887f4a7f5fb%3Ftempauth%3Dv1e.eyJzaXRlaWQiOiIwZWRkODU4NS1iMzFkLTQyZTQtYjAzMy03NDA1ZGVhMGEwMjgiLCJhdWQiOiIwMDAwMDAwMy0wMDAwLTBmZjEtY2UwMC0wMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAvbXkubWljcm9zb2Z0cGVyc29uYWxjb250ZW50LmNvbUA5MTg4MDQwZC02YzY3LTRjNWItYjExMi0zNmEzMDRiNjZkYWQiLCJleHAiOiIxNzY5MDgzMjAwIn0.MOYya0kU5YUj7qbkummLd0gjl8roaQbvK0mTV-eS1TFrRn5adOBNBCoygqT-ghLsp_mzKZ-_R58mDetylDxoMFHyhkCCAcb40dwH96gK-COvfwFBmH6KAyQDMjXTPty6V78nko2J1KsypL_27WTHeuLXQTAo2PLlnwKMrA7a20VBYPCLvNP56jBnX0ml-jCLfrCzANp9DC5qWUhurl0-AABJUbvokXHuq0MxLcqH_rYuXjqfpCGqlmVjlLN9kM4pltzEDpK6BcO3jD3bJpFDICa8YO1_CiJpV_oUtZ2p5u1SIpcUMPeg9SgBbgU0CXW0Q-TKnXS4jS9d7X7JkkvMIw.IKodyhFtnujfvtRPaSEjroxnL2aqgjj64b-qtqLXsnM%26version%3DPublished&width=3000&height=2000&reprocess=true&cb=LDDWFEXZUuHoU_nZ7PfHuBcGfDg
Additional information:
I added the elements in 2024 mostly via the mobile (android) app, taking the pictures directly via the app, so they were not saved local on my phone, but directly uploaded to Microsoft (I don't know where, not in the OneDrive, they were never shown there).
So the problem is I don't have access to my own pictures and they were not locally saved so I can not replace them manually by myself.
If I try to "shorten" the link, to maybe get to a "folder" where all pictures are shown/downloadable, this would be also fine for me.
But I tried and end up like this:Which says from my point of view: "Access denied. You don't have access to your own files"
Thanks in advance, I really hope you can help me out!
Best, PatrickHi Patrick_211
i can't reproduce the issue with the pictures, also with your URLs, i have only lists on SharePoint.
Can you insert pictures in this case for a better view into your issue?
Best, Dave
Hi Dave,
I left a detailed reply ~3h ago, hope this will be "approved" soon.
Best, Patrick
