Getting the name of a picture in a container field

[lance667]

I have something of a huge problem here. My office has spent many weeks dragging photos into container fields of hundreds of records. It is only recently that I realized that FMP is slow at serving photos directly onto the web. The suggestion that I got was to enter the name of the photo into FMP and then display the photo having HTML search in a separate folder. So far so good. BUT, my office is going crazy trying to figure out the original names of the photos to enter them in FMP. Only the photo itself appears in the container. Is there any way to extract the name from he container? Any solutions given will save us from weeks of work.

Thanks

[Kurt Knippel]

Well the real problem that you have is that since you dragged the photo into the container field, the original source information does not exist. You actually created new photo files within Filemaker.

IF, and only IF you imported only the reference to the photo, then you can extract the pathnames with the Troi File plug-in which can extract the full path from the file spec stored in the container.

[kenneth2k1]

I dont know about you, but since I got the File plugin I am wondering how I ever got along without it.

Ken