Thanks for the links. I eventually managed to get the images out and append the row id to the file name with a one line mod to the VBA included in the mdb at http://www.lebans.com/oletodisk.htm

The only shortcoming at this point is that the code seems to write the pictures to disk with a higher level of compression than they had to start with. I'd like to write the pictures to disk without increasing the jpeg compression. I am looking...

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I have an object that contains an IPictureDisp object and I would like to read it out and write it to disk. Presently, I am looking at casting it to an IPicture object and using the SaveAsFile method to achieve this. However, the IPicture interface is pretty new to me and much more complex (at least it seems so to me) than most of the items I usually use. So far I have not been able to successfully get the picture into a stream that...

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I have received an Access database from someone who has asked me to retrieve all the photos stored in it (as OLE packages). I came across a post entitled "Extracting OLE to pdf" from March 5th 2006 and found a link to a dll and a mdb that will extract the photos, but it writes the jpegs with only there original filename (at least that is all I have been able to get it to do so far). I need to append some information from other...