Using FM Developer 7 in XP, I create a Runtime version of an item DB containing pictures. In the runtime most pictures (but not all) disappear. Can anyone help please?

The files have to be embedded when they are imported.

Check the options when you place the files.

HTH

I thought that it was better to reference the images and not store them internally because the file would grow to unmanageable sizes and possibly slow down the database. i have always used references to images but i am on a mac maybe there is a difference can anyone elaborate more on this

a reference is just a file path to the image file. it doesn't store the actual image in the database. so if the image is moved or deleted from its current location. the database will lose its reference to the file.

embedded means that the database will store the image when it's implemented, so it doesn't need the source image file anymore.