>>And with what command do you do this?
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>>In my tests (I think I used APPEND GENERAL), the original JPG file was 50 KB, while the sample FPT file (with the single record) growed to more than 1 MB.
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>>Hilmar.
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>Hilmar, with the binary memo field I user Append Memo .. From .. and for the general field I used Append General .. From ... I dont think you can use any other command to get data into these field types? Anyway, for both I added a 400Kb Jpeg file to a single record. In both cases the FPT file was also 400Kb. I am using VFP7. Did you perhaps Append the same memo field more than once during testing? If so then you would get FPT file bloat.
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>Jos

No, I tested with a single field. I don't know what is going on - where the discrepancy comes from.

Now, apart from the memo bloat (reported by many other programmers, contradicted by your experiments), there is the other problem, that it is difficult to get pictures out of the general field.

For those two reasons, most programmers here on the UT recommend using separate JPG-files (or GIF, or whatever).

Hilmar.