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Re: Inmagic/Access and linking images



Have you tried compacting your database?  Access provides a compaction program
under Tools, Database Utilities, Compact Database.  This should help the size
of your file...

Donna

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>I think I understand, but what I meant to say was that it appears that with
>Access, 2+2 equals 5....For instance we have about 500 images at roughly
>10,000 bytes per image, and the database weighs in at well over 100 MB.  Who
>knew?  I still can't figure out how that many images and just plain text can
>add up that high.
>
>Bill
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anna Truman [mailto:atruman@CN.HUC.EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 3:32 PM
>To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>Subject: Re: Inmagic/Access and linking images
>
>
>Because photos take a comparatively enormous number of bytes to store -
>there is lots more info in a photo file than in a text file - ergo, your
>database file will grow "disproportionately" as you say.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jackson, Bill" <Bill.Jackson@HARLEY-DAVIDSON.COM>
>To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:11 PM
>Subject: Re: Inmagic/Access and linking images
>
>
>> Craig is correct about Access and inserting files, but we are finding here
>> that when we attach photo files directly into the record, the file size of
>> the database (in megabytes) seems to grow at a disproportionate rate.
>>
>> We haven't figured out why yet.
>>
>> If you engage in this kind of thing, you might want to be careful about
>what
>> you insert, how many, how much server space is available, etc.
>>
>> Bill Jackson
>> Senior Archivist
>> Harley-Davidson Motor Company
>> Milwaukee, WI
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wright, Craig [mailto:craig.wright@MNHS.ORG]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 1:03 PM
>> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>> Subject: Inmagic/Access and linking images
>>
>>
>> Just for the record you can link to photo files in Access,
>> link to audio and moving image files,
>> or instead of linking, insert copies of the files directly into the
>> database record.
>>
>> __________________________________
>> Craig G. Wright
>> Associate Curator of Manuscript Acquisitions
>> Minnesota Historical Society
>> 651.296.7989           craig.wright@mnhs.org
>>
>>
>> Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
>> Carl Gustav Jung
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