>>Hi Gang!
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>>Long time, no see!
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>>Well, I am trying to fix some problems at a client's site.
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>>They have a FoxPro 2.6a program running under Windows XP SP2, 504 MB RAM, 3.39 GHz.
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>>They have in a table some GEN fields (along with Memo). In these GEN fields, they have pict files. They can DBL-CLK on the GEN field, and the field would open up to show the Picture. If they DBL-CLK the picture, it used to open up in the OLE-linked application. But no more. They get a " Cannot Activate OLE Server" error message from FoxPro.
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>>Any ideas why it may have stopped??
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>Maybe a new graphics program was installed that is now the default "handler" for the picture file type, and it's not an OLE/COM server (or it's not accessible from a 16-bit app).
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>One thing to try might be to uninstall then reinstall the app that's supposed to be handling the pictures.

Thanks for the tip.

Turns out, the FPT file was over 2 gig..... sigh........ so I had to copy the data out to a new table, which reduced the file down to 1.6 Gig.

Gives them some time to mull over their problem and seek to go a different route with their program.

Thanks again.

Tommy