>Eric the same problem is with me.. and infact the .fpt size of my table is 1.9Gb and it's very tough so I have to do some thing else and I have concluded to store the path and file name into the table and just to store the name of file for the particular bmp/jpeg
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>or else you can compress the bmp file and while showing to it's user uncompress it..
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>But the first concept it better...

If the block size of the memo file is less than the cluster size of the volume and the bitmap sizes do not equal the cluster size, you will actually use more space saving as individual files. The only difference will be that the lost space will not be obvious because it is not reported by dir or explorer, you will have to use a utility that reports slack space (or calculate it by hand).