Bob, I don't think you can View the image straight from the field. I believe you have to use the STRTOFILE() function to cache to disk. with the general field you also run into viewer issues with .ocx versions. What has always worked best for me with vfp is created a directory for "media" files inside my database home directory and copying the images to it. Then I insert the path into a character field. It works better for me than using the memo or general field by alleviating memo bloat and keeping your table size down.