# When you drag a picture into tiled, you are prompted that the file's map is not available

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/when-you-drag-a-picture-into-tiled-you-are-prompted-that-the-files-map-is-not-available/5019>\
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**Created:** [March 19, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/when-you-drag-a-picture-into-tiled-you-are-prompted-that-the-files-map-is-not-available/5019 "2021-03-19T02:18:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jielinile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jielinile](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/jielinile)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/when-you-drag-a-picture-into-tiled-you-are-prompted-that-the-files-map-is-not-available/5019/1 "2021-03-19T02:18:11Z")

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将图片拖进Tiled中时，提示该文件的地图不可用

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/when-you-drag-a-picture-into-tiled-you-are-prompted-that-the-files-map-is-not-available/5019/2 "2021-03-24T11:19:34Z")

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Right, so indeed with the current version of Tiled (testing with yesterday’s 1.5 release), trying to drag an image onto Tiled pops up a message saying it doesn’t recognize the file format:

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/2X/5/58a35e271097acfb4daf82afdcd0471da9a9d3e0.png)

This is correct, since Tiled can’t open images for editing, though it’s not the most helpful thing to do, since Tiled could offer to create a tileset based on the image. And in fact, this is what Tiled does, when you drag the image onto the “Tilesets” view. Then the following dialog pops up:

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/2X/5/5bf2608fda878b18805816930ec080003ffa561f.png)