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Apr 15, 2021 10:47 AM
Hi there. I’m using API to upload my photos from google drive to airtable. When they uploaded, after few second, a green frame remove them. How…! What is green frame! why my photos deleted!
Apr 15, 2021 10:53 AM
That’s Airtable’s visual indicator that someone, their user icon will appear at the right, is currently editing the value for that cell. “Someone” includes API requests, Airtable’s native automations, scripts, etc. You can expand a record that had photos deleted to view the edit history.
Apr 15, 2021 11:09 AM
I’m did’nt remove anything!
Apr 15, 2021 11:21 AM
According to the history it seems like you did. That could mean one of a few things:
Apr 15, 2021 11:40 AM
Everything was working fine before 3 months. it’s a new issue.
Apr 28, 2021 11:57 AM
I’m having this same issue with a google drive related api. Did you ever figure out how to stop it from disappearing?
May 06, 2021 11:08 AM
This is an Airtable issue (perhaps also caused by Filestack). I asked Airtable support about this and they confirmed its an issue between Filestack and Google Drive… but then I changed my API to use S3 instead of Google Drive and am now having the same issue.
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