>Im trying to use OLE linking to provide a preview of .bmp images for a simple database application written in VFP6.
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>I have an OLE bound control on a form whose control source points to a general field in my database table. I create the link using the the following command.
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>APPEND GENERAL drwindex.olefield FROM (FileToLinkTo) LINK
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>No problems with doing this everything works fine.
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>My problem is that the FPT file associated with the database table gets very large. For example before I establish any links the FPT file is 5KB. If you link one 470KB bitmap the size of the FPT file jumps to nearly 2MB.
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>It stays at this size even after you close the application, at first I wondered whether VFP was using it as some kind of temporary cache ?
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>If you keep on linking you rapidly end up with a FPT file of several hundred MB's.
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>I thought only the link was being stored ?
>What am I doing wrong ?

Look at the KB article on my web site that discusses Memo file bloat for some insights.