Steven W. Erbach
serbach at new.rr.com
Mon Dec 22 14:41:01 CST 2003
Jim, >> Never trust your spell checker...I meant 'pseudo'. << Gotta kick that spell checker habit! >> the program embeds a copy of the display drive in each record. << Not sure what you mean here. We use a graphic file viewer (IrfanView) to open the GIF file and then Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V into the OLE object field. No file name, no path. >> When the graphic files were setup as linked the MDB reduced to about 150MB. << Yeah. My client specifically asked to embed the files in the DB to reduce the number of files. Besides, I've got enough trouble with replication. If I have to distribute hundreds or thousands of graphics, too... I do appreciate the "heads up." Regards, Steve Erbach Scientific Marketing Neenah, WI 920-969-0504 Message created with Bloomba Disclaimer: No tree was killed in the transmission of this message. However, several coulombs of electrons were temporarily inconvenienced.