>Everyone keeps advising you to store only filenames, but that seems not tobe your question. So if you want to store the actual pics -- which by the way IS a good idea for data integrity - use a field type of blob rather than general and just do:
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>And is a really crappy idea if it is a large database to begin with and you actually have to backup or restore the database :)

Equally crappy as using the filesystem as a database and relying on someone's admins to keep the database and filesystem backups in sync.

IOW, the files have to be somewhere. I'm assuming they are documents related to the other data in the app, so they are data. Now it's only a question whether we will pay the bridge toll or we will pay to cross the river.