I have a realy big issue with my MS Lists with pictures

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I have a realy big issue with my MS Lists with pictures

Gabor Gyorgy 0

I created a lists in MS lists, and it's works well, until last month when some pict started to disappear. I tried it on different laptop, mobile phone, different browser but nothing changed. :/

MS_list_pict

If I try to open a pict I got the next code:
{"error": {"code": "invalidRequest","message": "Invalid request"**}}

**I don't use sharepoint or onedrive for the pictures I upload it directly the mobile app.

This is a very big lists, about 1500 artifacts item, I don't want to do the picts again.

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Francisco Montilla 19,365 Independent Advisor

Hi Gabor,

You are seeing broken thumbnails because the images that the Image column points to were deleted in the SharePoint site that backs your list. Microsoft Lists always stores those pictures in the list's SharePoint site. When the backing files disappear, the cell shows names like original-<guid>.jpeg and opening them returns invalidRequest.

You'll have to restore the missing image files from the site's Recycle Bin so the existing list items pick them up again, no re-upload needed.

Open your list in a browser. In the top right choose the gear icon > Open in SharePoint. If you do not see that, use the command bar menu Integrate > Open in SharePoint. Now choose Site contents > Recycle bin.

Search or sort by date to find the images. They usually have names starting with original- and end in .jpeg or .png, and they come from either Site Assets > Lists > <your list name> or from Lists > <your list name> > Attachments.

Select the files and choose Restore, then refresh your list. If you do not see them there, open the Second-stage recycle bin link on that page and check again. Restore from there if found.

If nothing shows up in either recycle bin, tell me and I will walk you through the next step.

Gabor Gyorgy 0 Reputation points

2025-11-07T09:38:55.35+00:00

Hi Francisco,

Unfortunately I have no options for Open in Sharepoint. I use personal license.

Moreover I can't see anything in the bim just code.
Francisco Montilla 19,365 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2025-11-07T17:07:48.2366667+00:00

Hi Gabor,

Thanks for the screenshots. Because you are using Microsoft Lists with a personal account, there is no Open in SharePoint button. When you add an image from the Lists mobile app, the file is actually stored in your OneDrive Personal under a Microsoft Lists area. If those files get deleted or moved, the list shows names like original-xxxxx.jpeg and opening them returns invalidRequest. The JSON you see on the Lists Recycle Bin page is a known glitch in the personal Lists UI, so use OneDrive's Recycle bin instead.

Do this recovery path now.

Open onedrive.live.com in the same Microsoft account you use for Lists, select Recycle bin on the left. Search for original- or filter by Type = Images and look around the dates when photos disappeared. You will likely see many items coming from a folder named Microsoft Lists or from your list name. Select those image files and choose Restore, then go back to lists.live.com and refresh the list. The thumbnails should come back without re-uploading.

If you do not find the files in OneDrive's Recycle bin, tell me what you see and I will guide you to the next option.
Gabor Gyorgy 0 Reputation points

2025-11-07T19:49:13.3066667+00:00

Hi Francisco,

The Recycle Bin is empty. I also can’t find any of the list pictures anywhere in OneDrive. If Lists stores them in OneDrive, it must be in a backend location I can’t access. Could you advise where these files should reside and how we can relink/restore them?
Francisco Montilla 19,365 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2025-11-08T14:05:55.3233333+00:00

In personal Microsoft Lists the image files live in your OneDrive at Apps > Microsoft Lists > . If that folder or its files were deleted or moved, the list shows names like original-.jpeg and the link opens with invalidRequest. You can try to roll your OneDrive back to a point before the pictures went missing using OneDrive Restore.

Open onedrive.live.com with the same account. Click the gear icon in the top right, choose Restore your OneDrive, then pick a date from before the problem started. Use the slider or the activity list to include the deletions, then select Restore. When the restore finishes, refresh your list. Because the files return to the exact Apps > Microsoft Lists path, the list items pick them up automatically and the thumbnails reappear.

Note: Restore affects your whole OneDrive for that time window. If you created important new files after that date, download a copy first, then run the restore and upload those new files back.

If Restore your OneDrive is not available in your account, or the images disappeared more than 30 days ago, tell me and I will guide you through the next recovery path.
Gabor Gyorgy 0 Reputation points

2025-11-08T15:53:28.42+00:00

I’m on Microsoft Lists (Preview) with a personal (MSA) account at lists.live.com.

List name: Lakás műtárgyak. It contains ~1500 items with a Photo column (attachments taken via the “Take photo” option in Lists).

What happened

Until recently, all photos rendered. Now most thumbnails are broken; only a handful still display.

OneDrive usage is <0.1 GB and OneDrive shows only a few documents — there is no Documents/Lists/<list>/Attachments subtree.

Both recycle bins are empty.

This strongly suggests the images are not present in my OneDrive at all (either never stored there by the service or purged server-side).

Evidence (Graph Explorer)

GET /v1.0/me/drive/root/children?$select=name,id,folder → shows normal root, no Attachments tree.

GET /v1.0/me/drive/items/{Lista_folder_id}/children?$select=name,id → returns only one surviving JPEG:

Beolvasás – 2025-09-25 20_05_09.jpeg (id e.g. 77BBD043E9ACCC79!...).

GET /v1.0/sites/{siteId}/drive/root:/Documents/Lists/<list>/Attachments/children → 404 itemNotFound.

GET /v1.0/me/drive/special/approot/children?$select=id,name,folder → empty.

Request

Please escalate to engineering for a server-side restore of the missing attachment images for this list (items created roughly Sep 18–25, 2025, but the issue affects most of the ~1500 items).

Please also confirm the official storage location for photo attachments in Lists (Preview, personal/MSA) and whether there is a known incident causing attachments to go missing while OneDrive shows no corresponding storage increase.

This is not a user-deletion case: the OneDrive footprint (<0.1 GB) is inconsistent with ~1500 photos, and Graph cannot locate the Attachments container. Thank you for checking backend logs/snapshots and restoring the files.

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