On Sat, 3 May 2008 19:41:32 +0200, "Ursus" <ursus.kirk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"FastWolf" <wolfsofast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 2 May 2008 09:42:58 +0200, "Ursus" <ursus.kirk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>"FastWolf" <wolfsofast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
>>>news:6qmk149pdbq06fg4pd60c0qd39235sa3i1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Is such a thing even possible? I have a solution with a calc field,
>>>> result is a container. The calc creates the filepath and name, which
>>>> resolves to a network share. The Windows users can see the image no
>>>> problem, but the Mac users cannot. I've made sure that the Mac is
>>>> logged on to the Windows share independent from FMP. I've tried the
>>>> "imagewin:" prefix (Windows path) and the "image:" prefix
>>>> (cross-platform path), no luck either way. It says in FMP Help that
>>>> network paths only work on Windows shares, not Mac shares. But it
>>>> doesn't say anything about Windows shares not being accessible from a
>>>> Mac client.
>>>>
>>>> Any clues?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> FW
>>>>
>>>> FileMaker Pro Advanced 8.5 on Windows XP Pro SP2
>>>> FileMaker Server 8.0 on Windows 2003 Server R2
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>>>
>>>FastWolf.
>>>
>>>I have had a similar problem, I haven't been able to solve it. I have
now
>>>put all the images inside a separate table, which doesn't present the
same
>>>problem. Only thing is this solution is not nearly as flexible, but for
me
>>>it works.
>>>
>>>Keep well, Ursus
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>> Ursus,
>>
>> Many thanks. I was afraid of that. :) In this case we're talking
>> about 6GB of image data so that would just balloon the db. What about
>> putting the images into a separate FMP file and pulling them from
>> that? (I wonder how long it would take to im****t 6GB of image data.)
>> Then we'd be pulling the images over fmnet instead of imagewin. It
>> might be slow as mol*****, but I'm going to try it.
>>
>> I know the file size limit for FMP version 6 is 2GB, what about later
>> versions? According to this source:
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>> http://tinyurl.com/3p6aqa
>>
>> ... (not a great source I'll grant) the limit on file size in FMP
>> version 7 is 8TB. That can't be right -- can it?
>>
>> --
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>Well 8TB IS right. (if you can find a drive large enough...)
Dayemm -- I can't imagine an 8 gigabyte FMP database, let alone 8
terabytes. But the drive I have -- or have access to: a Jetstor 416F
RAID array with 12 TB. (One of my best clients has 10 of them.)
> And on top of
>that the new filemaker version doesn't bloat any more. 6Gig of image-data
>will result in a 6Gig datafile. Speed of transfer will be as quick as
your
>network. You are never going to send ALL 6Gig at once are you? As for
>im****ting the data, Just start it on a friday, before the weekend,
without
>any errors it should be a long way next monday.If you have many
categories
>of images I would take the trouble to create categorie files. Say: Cars
and
>im****t images of cars onnly. This would leave more room to change things
>later. You can have 125 files open at one time, so that is no problem.
Thanks man, I'm going to try this.
--
FW
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