singhals wrote: > > Couldn't say. It grew and grew with each of 5 images I added, none > particularly large by my standards. I booted the experiment after the > 5th image. At which time, it was taking about 20 minutes to just OPEN > the thing. That makes me wonder how they're storing the images if the increment is way above image size. It also makes me wonder just how much structure they try to create in memory at start up - the full thing, pictures & all? As far as can see they're using a straightforward database engine which should just allow them to bring in data as they need it. > Color me, peeved? > Indeed. I think you're entitled ;) -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk