Question Attachment control on form

[WineSnob]

Can the attachment control store the attachment on a hard drive and not embed in Access? I created a db with this feature and now the db size is reaching 2 GIG . It is the attachments. If I remove the attachment field in the table it shrinks to 55mb. I thought the attachments was just a link to where the picture reside but apparently it is embedding the picture.

 

[robruhr]

You can link your pics by changing the Picture Type in the Properties from Embed to Linked. Just make sure the pic is available in the folder, otherwise it won't show the picture. I don't think you can do that to attachments, though. For other attachments besides images, you can maybe display a hyperlink that will open up the folder or file you would want to attach.

Good Luck!