Linda,

>Thanx Steve. Your answer makes sense from the file management angle, but I need to know how to display the image on a form. I won't be using them in very many reports.

Drop the image control on a form. When the customer navigates to a record, do something like this:

lcPicFile = oApp.photoPath + table1.picFile
if file(lcPicFile)
	thisForm.image1.picture = lcPicFile
else
	thisForm.image1.picture = oApp.noPictureFile
endif

In this example, I have an application object (oApp) that has a property that stores the name of the path for the photos. oApp.noPictureFile stores the name (including full path) of an image I want displayed when the picture does not actually exist on disk.