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How are images stored?

How is a file saved in an image field stored?  Is the whole file stored within dBase or just a link?  In practice, can an iamge file be deleted once it has been imported into the filed of a dBase?

And in same way what about files attacjed to a record?

Many thanks,

rkevinbrown

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    • Mel_Charles
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Yes you can delete images once they have been imported or attached 

    just goto that image and select the 3 lines in top right corner of the image and select delete

    • rkbrown
    • 2 yrs ago
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    I believe that removes the file from the database.  I want to keep the image in the dBase and remove the original file from the computer - is that possible?

      • UKenGB
      • 1 yr ago
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      rk.brown When Ninox imports an image, it copies the file to its own 'internal' folders and actually just stores in the database a link to that new file. So yes, once imported, the original file can be disposed of.

      But importing images seems to be a manual process of dragging and dropping image files. This works, but is impractical for bulk import and I've still no idea how to bulk import images by pathname.

    • rkbrown
    • 1 yr ago
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    Many thanks, that's comforting to know.  Fortunately I'm not involved with baulk import - just 2/4 images per record.

    Thanks again,

     

    Kevin

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