Thank you for your efforts. It would be a very easy fix, if I could store the images on the filesystem rather than the database and it is the recommended thing to do, however do to the complexity of our student information system and the ways that it is deployed in school districts I am left with finding a way to pull the images from the database. I know that VFP inserts OLE header information with the raw binary data, however I have been unable to find out the length of this header information; thinking that I might be able to strip off the header info to get only the raw image data.
I have wanted to move this thread to the VFP forum, but can't find help information on how to do this. How do you move a thread to a more appropriate forum--i.e. to the VFP forum. Forgive my ignorance

Thanks
Ed