Doug, That sounds correct. Did you tick both boxes?
http://www.4dsupport.guru/images/CompactAddressTable.png Personally I stopped doing that I kept losing too many .jpgs that way :( Regards, Wayne Wayne Stewart about.me/waynestewart On 15 November 2016 at 12:38, Douglas von Roeder <dvonroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Working in a 13.5 C/S app on Windows. > > When I change the storage location of a BLOB field and a 4D Write picture > field from "in the data file" to "Outside the data file", it appears that > I'm not able to get 4D to move the BLOB's or 4D Write picture fields out of > the data file. > > I've run a routine to update a field (and then remove the update) in each > record as well as running the data file through Advanced Compact. Both of > these efforts were carried out per the advice in the Tech Tip entitled > "Moving contents of blob outside datafile" (KB asset 76911). > > One table has a few dozen records with BLOB's while the table with the 4D > Write picture fields has 62k recs. > > When I ran Advanced Compact, my expectation was that the BLOB's and Picture > fields would be located in a folder adjacent to the data file. After doing > the Advanced Compact, the data file size was reduced from 19.01 to 18.55 GB > but there were no other files in the folder containing the 4DD, 4DIndx, and > Match files. > > The application will be updated to V15.x in the near future but I'd like to > support this architectural change while the app is still in V13.5 > > Any insights into this or advice would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Douglas von Roeder > 949-336-2902 > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
