# Images/Files in Anytype are missing critical metadata

**URL:** <https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870>\
**Category:** Talk\
**Tags:** Files, Images\
**Created:** [May 18, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870 "2025-05-18T01:13:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/anyreport/32/22177_2.png) [@AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/u/AnyReport)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870/1 "2025-05-18T01:13:25Z")

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Which files are part of an object? There’s no way to tell.

They’re meant to be treated like objects but they don’t appear in the graph view, and they have no backlink information. They seem to be not connected at all to anything despite being necessary pasted into objects to use them.

Is this something we can expect to be addressed in a future update? Right now, one wrong deletion and something important might vanish.

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**Author:** ![AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/anyreport/32/22177_2.png) [@AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/u/AnyReport)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870/2 "2025-05-18T15:52:23Z")

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Adding to this why is “images” as type recognized in the graph view but thats about it? No images linked as I would expect. Same goes for the other file types.

 ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-05-18 um 17.47.23](https://community-static.anytype.io/original/3X/4/6/46777dfb0f1d210a014d4bb84ec29547e4888a23.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Filip](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/filip/32/22248_2.png) [@Filip](https://community.anytype.io/u/Filip)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870/4 "2025-05-19T13:45:48Z")

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> [@AnyReport](#):
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> Is this something we can expect to be addressed in a future update?

> [@Images shoud have links to source object](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-shoud-have-links-to-source-object/22025):
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> WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND? I think images in database should have links to source object, where they were inserted. E.g. I have note Cats and page Dogs. I’ve attached one picture inside Cats and two inside Dogs. In image set grid I want to see links to Cats and Dogs. HOW COULD IT BE DONE? Auto add link to source object. REAL WORLD USE CASES Image set grid view.

We have it planned, but there is no ETA for it at the moment.

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**Author:** ![AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/user_avatar/community.anytype.io/anyreport/32/22177_2.png) [@AnyReport](https://community.anytype.io/u/AnyReport)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.anytype.io/t/images-files-in-anytype-are-missing-critical-metadata/27870/6 "2025-05-19T14:19:55Z")

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Thank you for the information. I found out if you use images in collections, images show the backlink information already, which collections they are part of. Maybe as a workaround for the time being.