Thank you for the reply and I think I see what you mean about the dangers involved. But I'm just a little fuzzy on how to implement what you describe. My thumbnails are small jpgs and the matching hi-rez files are pict files which are very large scans(averaging 40 megs each). I'm one of several film editors working on a documentary series. The idea is for each editor to be able to search our still photo library (over 1000 high rez scans) by using the thumbnails, and then download the needed hi-rez files necessary to actually edit with. So will the method you describe allow us to open files this large and save them (resolutions are up 4000x4000 pixels). Also, I don't understand how to make the thumbnail a link to the hi-rez file. I'm obviously a beginner and I appreciate your help very much.