diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3019c3f..b5bfcf2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Development command: `dotnet watch --project Management.Web/`
 ### Enable Image Support
 
 
-You must set the `ENABLE_FILE_SYNC` environment variable to true. Images need to be available in the `/app/public/` directory in the container so that nextjs will serve them as static files. Images can also be set to public URL's on the web.
+You must set the `NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_FILE_SYNC` environment variable to true. Images need to be available in the `/app/public/` directory in the container so that nextjs will serve them as static files. Images can also be set to public URL's on the web.
 
 When an image is detected by canvas manager, it will upload the image to the canvas course and keep a lookup table of the original path/url of the image to the canvas course URL.
 
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index ff1622a..7ab2dad 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 MAJOR_VERSION="2"
-MINOR_VERSION="5"
+MINOR_VERSION="6"
 VERSION="$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION"
 
 TAG_FLAG=false
diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index c4a79b2..e3930ea 100755
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ docker run -it --rm \
   --name canvas-manager-2 \
   -e TZ=America/Denver \
   -e NODE_ENV=development \
-  -e NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_FILE_SYNC=true \
+  -e "NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_FILE_SYNC=true" \
   -u 1000:1000 \
   -p 3000:3000 \
   -w /app \
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ docker run -it --rm \
   -v ~/projects/faculty/1405/2025_spring_alex:/app/storage/1405 \
   -v ~/projects/faculty/3840_Telemetry/2025_spring_alex/modules:/app/storage/telemetry \
   -v ~/projects/faculty/4620_Distributed/2025Spring/modules:/app/storage/distributed \
+  -v ~/projects/public:/app/public/images/public \
   -v ~/projects/facultyFiles:/app/public/images/facultyFiles \
   node \
     sh -c "
diff --git a/src/components/Modal.tsx b/src/components/Modal.tsx
index aa72cf1..c1c2dd1 100644
--- a/src/components/Modal.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Modal.tsx
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ export default function Modal({
             : " bg-opacity-0  -z-50  ")
         }
         onClick={modalControl.closeModal}
+        // if mouse up here, do not, if mouse down then still do
       >
         <div
           onClick={(e) => {
diff --git a/src/hooks/localCourse/assignmentHooks.ts b/src/hooks/localCourse/assignmentHooks.ts
index b2e6a6e..ecf3b1e 100644
--- a/src/hooks/localCourse/assignmentHooks.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/localCourse/assignmentHooks.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export const useUpdateImageSettingsForAssignment = ({
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!enable_images) {
-      console.log("not uploading images, FILE_POLLING is not set to true");
+      console.log("not uploading images, NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_FILE_SYNC is not set to true");
       return;
     }
 
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ export const useAddNewImagesToCanvasMutation = () => {
   return useMutation({
     mutationFn: async ({ markdownString }: { markdownString: string }) => {
       const imageSources = extractImageSources(markdownString);
+      // console.log("original image urls", imageSources);
       const newImages = imageSources.filter((source) =>
         settings.assets.every((a) => a.sourceUrl !== source)
       );
diff --git a/src/services/htmlMarkdownUtils.ts b/src/services/htmlMarkdownUtils.ts
index 9965b9a..97936e5 100644
--- a/src/services/htmlMarkdownUtils.ts
+++ b/src/services/htmlMarkdownUtils.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { marked } from "marked";
 import DOMPurify from "isomorphic-dompurify";
 import { LocalCourseSettings } from "@/models/local/localCourseSettings";
 import markedKatex from "marked-katex-extension";
+import toast from "react-hot-toast";
 
 marked.use(
   markedKatex({
@@ -37,8 +38,12 @@ export function convertImagesToCanvasImages(
   for (const imageSrc of imageSources) {
     const destinationUrl = imageLookup[imageSrc];
     if (typeof destinationUrl === "undefined") {
-      throw `cannot convert to html, no canvas url for  ${imageSrc} in settings`;
+      console.log(`No image in settings for ${imageSrc}, do you have NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_FILE_SYNC=true in your settings?`)
     }
+    // could error check here, but better to just not display an image...
+    // if (typeof destinationUrl === "undefined") {
+    //   throw `cannot convert to html, no canvas url for ${imageSrc} in settings`;
+    // }
     mutableHtml = mutableHtml.replaceAll(imageSrc, destinationUrl);
   }
   return mutableHtml;