I need some help here,

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When you insert the picture into FM it is converted from a compressed format (jpg) to a pict object (uncompressed). If you want to save space you are much better off inserting either a thumbnail of the picture or just a reference to the picture stored outside FM.

If you need to share pictures across a network, the volume the actual pictures are stored on must be mounted on each user's machine.

-bd

Hello Liveoak,

I am having the same problem and understand your solution, but isn't there a way we could put the picture just to display on the FM container instead of opening "windows image viewer". Its just easier and efficient if you have a picture right away showing in the product/ image/ etc... ------->more effiient no? (see the attached example?)

If troi plug in is the solution, how does that inplement to the existing database? I didn't quite understand their product features. Maybe is because of my poor english. All I understood is that the program just makes thumbnails .

Zuperzz & Ronnie:

I've got several clients with large image libraries; the actual image files (usuall Photoshop or Illustrator files in the range of 20-100MB, but not always) are stored offline on CD, or on occasion, on a file server. There is a text field referencing this in FMP. In FileMaker, the users insert a 2"x2" 72dpi PICT (or JPG when they're naughty) file, which on average increases the file size by 70-100KB per record. Every month or so, someone will troll through the db and see if someone has inadvertantly inserted a large file by mistake.

This system seems to work quite well.

-Stanley

Stanley, thank you! I think i got what you meant. I did not look up under reference filetext . Just by reading it, it looks like it will solve my problem. TYTYTYTYTY

Well, I just imported a 1.8MB folder of 15 jpg images and got a 1.8MB Filemaker file using the Movies template.