>Anyone notice Append General not working as before. I opened an old app and did some update and I found that Append General to stick a .jpg or .bmp in a general field does not put in the image as before. It appears to put in an icon of the image with the filename below it. I browse the old database and click on a general field of an old record and the image displays. but if I try to append general the same image, it sticks in a small icon of the image with the file name below. Did my IS depaartment update something and not tell me? I haven't yet tried this on a non-networked computer.

Yes, they updated something. They've changed which server it is that handles BMP and JPG images from what it used to be. This is exactly why its not a good idea to use general fields to store data.

More than likely, you've had a different graphics program installed on your machine that is now in control of the .BMP and .JPG files.