Hi Libre Office Version: 4.2.7.2 Build ID: 420m0(Build:2) English Base DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS" I am new to Linux and therefore Libre Base and have been searching for help !! I posted this on the Libre Office THe Document Foundataion but am still waiting for a reply....... I should be grateful if you could give me an answer to my question before I waste any more time.. I have been using Base to provide a database for my paintings via a simple form. I recorded 200 records and then added the facility to include a photograph .jpg file and this is when the gremlins started to appear. It constantly issues error messages when adding data and causes me to endlessly loose work as it has failed to write to the table from a form for no obvious reason I can see, sometimes I can add a new data or several set/records on the form OK and then it will fail with the error message as follows where the Table1 is my Table S1000 General error java.lang.NullPointerException in statement [update "Table1" SET "Photo"=? Where ID=?} Is is a know issue that it is unstable ? In addition I set auto save and backup yet fail to find them anywhere. Any help will be very appreciated and I am ok to provide my database for analysis if required by genuine helper and would pay on results if necessary. cheers alan Alan Pedder Mb. 0781 844 5906 alanswatercolours.co.uk -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted