Ian,

I've never used a general field for anything more that toying with a Word doc way back in FPW2.x. When I found out how basically useless (IMHO) they are I stopped using them. STRTOFILE() is complaining because the general/memo field isn't a string as far as it's concerned. You can coerce a memo to string by doing lcString = TheTable.TheMemo + "" I don't know if that's going to work for the general field or not. Even if it does create a file I don't think you will have a pure .jpg, I think the general field stores additional OLE information about what kind of object it is. If that's the case you may be forced into running a scan loop over the table doing a MODIFY GENERAL to launch another JPG viewer app (could be IE, Paint? PaintShopPro, MS Photo Editor whatever current jpg assigned program you have) and do a SaveAs from inside there. If you have too many of these to do by hand you could maybe get one strtofile() and the same file stored out as a real jpg and look to see the differences using the hexedit.app, you could then programatically peel off the OLE junk. JPGs have an easily findable signature at the start of the file. There are 6 hex bytes and then the characters JFIF at the start.

I guess the OLE bound control doesn't understand JPG. I've never used it, the Image object understand jpg and that's the control I use since I don't do general fields.

>Hi Ho... I need just a little more info/clarification if you can spare the time:
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>I finally forced the time to look at this issue again and I think your solution should work nicely but I can not get STRTOFILE() to function. Here is what is happening:
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>strtofile(orders.invoicescan, "c:\tempimg.jpg")
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>where INVOICESCAN is a General Field containing a JPG
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>I get "INVALID ARGUMENT VALUE, TYPE OR COUNT IS INVALID."
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>I can get this command to work if I am using text fields with text data but not the GENERAL FIELD. I have checked MSDN CD's and Tech Net but nothing useful came of it. Any idea's why I can not push a JPG in a General field to a file???
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>Another (directly related) annoying issue is that if I use a OLEBOUNDCONTROL on the same field, the graphic IS displayed if it is a BMP but not if it is a JGP. Any idea's why this is??????????