[FX.php List] Path conundrum (off-topic, but...)

[Bob Patin]

I answered my own question; the path was right, but here's what she  
was trying to do, which is interesting:

This company has a huge database which references images. Rather than  
store the images in the database, which made it huge and really slow  
on their network, she started using the Troi plugin to *reference*  
the images; she stored the images on her hard drive, and then, using  
the plugin, she referenced each image. So by doing this, the images  
were stored externally, but they showed up in the container field  
when she searched the database.

So when we moved this to my server, it didn't work, and it took a  
minute for me to realize that the reason was that, even though the  
images were stored on my FM Server machine, the plugin looks for the  
images on a *local* drive--local to the user, not local to the  
database. So, the only way to make it work would be for each user of  
the database to have an images folder stored on their local drive.

An interesting one to get my head around at first...

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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On May 8, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I've got a client who's putting some FM6 databases on one of my FM5  
> Server machines, which still (yes, still) run OS 9--very quickly, I  
> might add.
>
> Anyway, she's got a container field in one of her databases that  
> needs to reference locally-stored images, and I can't get the path  
> to work.
>
> The path is simple; my server's name is "FM Server 2" and her  
> images file is just called "images"; I have tried over and over  
> with "FM Server 2:images:file.jpg" but it just won't work.
>
> What am I missing here, oh wise ones who still remember OS 9?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> 615-333-6858
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>
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>      AIM or iChat: longterm1954
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>
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