
Assume also that you have a FileMaker database that has a table in it with fields called TextContent, FileName, and FilePath. This may seem like a lot, and it is a lot compared to the limit of 64KB that was in force in previous versions of FileMaker! But it follows from this that you shouldn't import text or image files into FileMaker if any single imported file will be larger than 2GB.Īssume that you have a folder with a number of plain text files in it. In the case of text files, FileMaker brings the entire contents of the file into a specified text field.įileMaker can store a maximum of 2GB of data in a single field. In the case of image files, FileMaker can bring the image data from each file into a container field so that each image can be viewed inside FileMaker. FileMaker can also bring in information about each file's name and directory path.įileMaker can work with two types of data when performing a folder import: image files and text files. In this batch mode, FileMaker takes the data from a file and imports it into one or more fields in a FileMaker table. FileMaker can import data from several files at once.
