>I used a solution that was buried in one of the messages here where I append the file from the exe into a memo field of a cursor, then copy that file onto the hard drive. Then when the app closes I erase the .AVI's...

Cool, wuld that message be my reply? ;-) But one question, why erase the AVI when you're done? Seems like the next time around you could save some time by extracting the file (depends if the AVIs are huge ot not).