On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:01:48 EDT, CFTWuser@aol.com penned this message: >the last character the 8th is a number so that I can have up to ten portraits >of each person by this system ... I store all of them in pcx format >(greyscale) 2 inches high and about 150 dpi ... I have over 900 images >attached to families and individuals in my database so far You don't have any color photos? I convert everything to .jpg. It's amazing how much more compact a .jpg is than a .pcx. A picture I saved in .pcx was 875,000 bytes. The same picture in .jpg was 24,493! I think I might try a variation on your theme. What directory do you store them in? Mr.T (Tracy Schell) from The Sunshine State. Visit my Homepage at: http://bbs.mpcs.com/~tschell Also visit my churches webpage at: http://www.geocities.com/~ncccfl My Sports Card Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4995