>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.

There is a sample in teh Files Section under Image processing by Waleed Hassan about scanning images. That would be a good place to start there.

To actually store the images in the DBF, you can grab file and do FileToStr() (VFP6) and save the result in a memofield. To view the image, extract it into a temp file with StrToFile() and then view it.