I don't think you want to place the scans directly in a table. It will un-necessarily bloat the table. Best is to drop them in folder and use a pointer field in a table. If you want to automate the process of picking up the images from the data that is already in the table, think of a naming scheme for the images that incorporates a unique element of data in each record. BTW, you have some choices in VFP6 as to what image format you wish to work with.

>I have a user that wants to be able to scan her photos and place them in her database. Does anyone know of a simple and painless way of doing this? I'm not sure what kind of scanner she's working with.
>
>TIA
>
>Jeff T.