QuickTime and PDFs Referencing Not Importing

[Burton Cohen]

I have created a database that I want to allow me to quickly lookup information in regards to Photoshop and FileMaker. I am finding QuickTime Movies and PDFs that I am adding to my database.

Yes, I know, importing files will make my database larger but I do not want to deal with the hassle of keeping an external location for reference files.

My problem is that every time I import either movies or PDFs, they are not added to the database but only referenced. I have tried Inserting, Importing and pasting and in each case I have a reference not the actual file in my database.

When using Importing, I have deselected "Import only a reference .....". Yes I have the update to v7.03.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks everyone,

Burt

[dbhill]

Hello Burt,

You're not doing anything wrong, this is the way FileMaker 7 behaves in this instance. I would call it a serious deficiency not to offer an option to imbed or not when inserting QT or multi-page PDFs into a container field.

~Dennis