>FWIW, IMO, general fields are pretty useless in all but a few cases- there is no way to get the content back out of the field and into a file. A better strategy IMO is to store a pth to a file on disk, and use that to navigate your app to that file.


My sentiments too. Just wanted to hear someone with experience say the same thing to be sure I wasn't missing something.


>>Is there a means for effectively 'packing' .ftp files after links or embededed files are cleared?
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>PACK MEMO, but you have to have the table opened exclusively. This is another reason to consider storing your stuff in files...


by 'storing your stuff in files' you mean storing a path to the files in a character field of a VFP table to use as a means of firing up the related app?