women_lover_best wrote:

>I will need to be able access about 3000 photographs..and store on
>local drive of user..these photographs will be on a server..should i
>store it in firebird,or in a folder on server(each photograph will be
>named as id.jpg eg 100.jpg...
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On a folder, for sure. Two reasons:

1. Storing in your db will increase your backup time.
2. When storing on disk you will be able to use comand line tools to
easily process your pictures (like generating thumbnails, for
example.

Ivan.