I'm confused. I think it's time to start over. Can you explain what you're trying to do/acomplish?
>mymemo contains x:\podverifydownload\files\tswiss010006.bmp which is the correct location of the image file - if I do the append mymemo I get a memo field with data in it but I can't open it as a picture - save as html doesn't help either - it just looks like rubbish
--sb--