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Chuck Hobbs 
    
4 years ago
Hi. The image video worked great to debloat my Documents DB by placing the JPG files outside of the database. However some of my documents are multiple pages and are in a PDF file and cannot be used as images.

Is there a way to "link" to those PDF files outside of my DB so that when the icon is clicked or double clicked it will open the PDF file?

Thanks,
Chuck
Alex Hedley  @Reply  
            
4 years ago
Chuck Hobbs OP  @Reply  
    
4 years ago
Thanks for the advice. After a lot of research and almost understanding all the VBA coding that I found. It occurred to me That there is a hyperlink file type available to me. It works great for my purposes. My backend went from 127 meg to just 17 meg by putting all my jpg and pdf files outside of the database.

Thanks

Chuck
Alex Hedley  @Reply  
            
4 years ago
The hyperlink field isn't great, it has problems, hard to parse etc
It's better to just store the path then do an Application.FollowHyperlink or equivalent
But I guess if it's working for you then great
Plus great to hear it's shrunk so much, it's far less likely to corrupt now.

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