That's my experience too. I believe we had problems with DOS when we had more than 30.000 files but not Netware. Or was it the other way around :-) Senility. I suspect that Mark won't have that many pictures -- afterall he wants to print a report with the pictures.

I've never tried to work with more than 80.000 pictures. However I would think that storing the pictures directly in the tables is not an option anyhow because the size of the table would exceed 2.1 GB.

With Linux/Samba we had to be very careful accessing large directories of emails.

viele grüße

Jamie

>Hi,
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>as you just mentioned the 'maybe' problem of too many files in the directory, some years ago I had to decide between a storing the picture in a db-table or just referencing to the specific directory.
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>So I went and created a small prg that copied 10 KB to 2 MB jpg/gif/pdf/xls/doc up to 30000 times in the same directory and tested the time needed to display a single selected picture and additionally displayed a list of selected pictures using adir()
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>ADIR(paArr,PADL(myPreselection,10,[0]) + [_????????_??????*.???],[],1)
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>(The question marks replace timestamp (yyyymmdd_hhmmss)
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>At that time I used W2K, in the meantime it has become XPSP2 and everything is working fine.
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>So my conclusion: There is no need for storing Bitmaps in a table.
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>However in case your pic-directory lies on a linux/samba directory, you will have to configure samba very carefully.