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Re: Inmagic/Access and linking images
Access will store the images internally, but, as you noted, at a cost. For
an explanation, and a possible solution, see
<http://odyssey.apana.org.au/~abrowne/ser-10.html>. I've seen other
similar explanations and have been able to implement something like this
here.
---Terry
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Terry Abraham Special Collections U of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jackson, Bill wrote:
> 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
>
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