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    Svein is offline Novice
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    Instead of writing the whole path for each photos, but only the name; photo0000001.jpg how can I

    I have more than 100,000 photos stored in a catalog on my computer.




    they have names like this; photo0000001.jpg and so on.


    Instead of writing the whole path for each photos, but only the name; photo0000001.jpg


    How can I do this in case I move the catalog, than can I only change the path to the new catalog !



    PS... sorry about my poor english

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    the table can have 2 columns for this: FOLDER, FILENAME

    c:\photos\Birthday\ , photo0000001.jpg

    then code can assemble it
    txtFile = folder & Filename

    then open txtFile


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    if the catalog is a single folder without subfolders then you can just hardcode the path or for more flexibility store the path in a table

    either
    tblCatalogPath
    CatalogPath
    C:\Catalog

    or if you have subfolders

    tblCatalogPaths
    ID....CatalogPath
    1.....C:\Catalog
    2.....C:\Catalog\2014
    3.....C:\Catalog\2014\Holidays
    etc

    then store the ID of the path in a field for your photoname

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    Svein is offline Novice
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    I found a solution, in the ControlSource I wrote:


    ="M:\Photos\" & [PhotoName]



    Thanks for answer and suggestions.

    Svein

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