>I just wondered, has anyone actually tried to overflow the 2GB limit on a Memo file ?
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>I thought that the limit is about the (mapping of) locking areas onto the offset of the file(length). IOW, I don't think that locking applies to Memo files, so would it really stall something ?
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>Just curious ...

YES. And it corrupts the memo field pointers. Gone, gone, gone....

We have a memo fields holding word documents in a insurance production system.

One client decided to enhance their word document by placing a scanned logo on it. They scanned to logo at very high-resolution something like 50MB BMP.
To compound it they also inserted (not linked) the 50MB logo into the word document. It took only two days to exceed the 2GB limit.

We tried a couple of recovery tools but nothing worked....

- jim durkin