>I don't use General fields ever, but I do store a ZIPped copy of the document (2-4K) in a memo field. The idea is not allow the user to modify the document outside the confines of the program (which is a legal requirement in my case). Storin the path only allows the document to be modified outside if the confines of the program (which may or may not be desirable), and you have to hande the situations where a user moves, renames, deletes a document. Plus what do you do when two users try to edit the same document?

Good point of view, a very interesting and different aproach.