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Container storage options - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Container storage options

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- [Instructor] As exciting as the functionality is that can be brought to your custom app when you integrate container fields, there's also a bit of a caveat. But I'm going to show you it's not a big deal. But first a little demonstration. Notice that we've got this FileMaker file here, and the size is 561K. I open up the file, and I'm going to insert into it another file, and that is this Paddling Out file. This is a 44 megabyte file size, okay? First of all, FileMaker's able to accommodate it. We're not seeing the preview because I don't have this set up as interactive, but that is not germane to this point. I'm going to close the FileMaker file and we'll notice something interesting. It went from 561K to 61 megabytes. That's right, it consumed a 44 megabyte file and added another 20 megabytes on top of it. That's a really big deal, especially since that's just one record in a database that could potentially have…

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