Hi all,

I'm making a filemaker database that will contain lots of pictures (currently 3000 jpegs weighing about 400kb each, and about 1gb of video files and expanding) - the database is to be opened remotely by multiple clients and storing the files as refences is proving to be a nightmare.

I'm estimating the database will weigh around 13-16 gb - is this realistic, ie will it slow down? does anyone have experience of using such a large filemaker file? is there a maximum filemaker can hold?

any help very much appreciated, cheers

edit: it seems the max size is 8terabytes, so theoretically 13gb should be okay, so i guess the issue would be hardware? anybody have an idea of a good hardware spec to run such a database easily?

Edited February 11, 200917 yr by Guest

Why not trial this first.

You can import all the jpegs in one go if you assemble them to a single folder and use the "Import records from > Folder".

It will give an idea of both the size and performance of the intended DB.