A few weeks ago Joseph Cain wrote about a problem where he didn't think that photo images were properly copied to the final directory after a Database Merge. Looking into this, I had to remind myself of what really happens. Since images now can be stored in a directory other than the database directory, NO photos are copied from either original database during a Database Merge. When he thought some photos were copied from one of the databases, in reality the image directory in the Options-Database Config probably was pointing to one of the image directories and there were no files copied. Because of this seperate image directory I do not think it wise to copy any files. You will just need to be aware of what is happening here and make certain to copy or set the image directory properly. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com