Blob will be a little more efficient at storage because VFP won't be doing any code page conversions on it ever. But Blob is a new field type for VFP (9 I think) and prior to that you could always store binary data in memos. Both work fine...

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>Rick,
>what is the advantage of memo over blob or blob over memo for storing images or is there any?
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>Thanks,
>John.
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>>John,
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>>FoxPro tables can simply accept binary data as text, so you can directly store the results from FileToStr() in a memo field as the text is stored as plain ASCII.
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>>>I need to save a thumbnail of a page and then write it back out later. This code seems to work just fine but I thought I would run it past the brains here to make sure it's the best way and that I won't run into any problems.
>>>Thanks folks.
>>>

create cursor c_test (thumbnail W)
>>>m.Thumbnail = FileToStr('noimage.jpg')
>>>insert into c_test from memvar
>>>* brow
>>>=StrToFile(c_test.thumbnail, 'btest.jpg')