>Hi
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>Can I store a bmp image in a VFP table field? if so what field type would I use? - how would I store it in the field? - how would I subsequently extract tha image again as a stand alone bmp image?

I'd recommend to keep the image outside of the table - easier to manipulate, and no memo bloat if you update the content. If you must, then check commands like Append Memo and Copy Memo (and make sure your memo fields are set with NoCpTran, i.e. as binary). Alternately, you can fill the memo with

replace mymemo with FileToStr("my.bmp")

and copy out of it with

strtofile(mymemo, "my.bmp")

Keep in mind that bmp is pretty much the only not-compressed format out there (one of the reasons why in the nineties and later the hardware sellers were smiling when you said you wanted a machine to run Windows - it took MS some time to confess there are JPG, GIF and PNG). Also, for the same reason do not use general fields, because they contain a preview of the actual content in... bmp format. Often a 5k jpg makes for a 500K general field, because it represents a large bitmap (low in detail so it compressed well).