It is not only working with Microsoft files. When you save binary info into
image/binary field, SQL Server does not know if it is from the Microsoft or
not. I am pretty sure problem somewhere inside your code. What are you
tyring to achieve? Could you post your code here?

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Val Mazur
Microsoft MVP

Thanks for your reply.  Currently, the code is straight out of
Microsoft's Q258038, but I discovered that the database field is not
storing the original raw binary from the attachment.  Instead, the
attachment is loaded into an OLE Container Control and then saved to
the database, so the field must have OLE headers in it which is why I
see that it is corrupted.

What I really need to do then is populate an OLE Container Control
from an ADO field and then export the file from the OLE Container
control to the file system.  I don't think that I can use a bound
control because the ADO field is based on an underlying SQL Server
Database not Access or something that I could access with Jet.  I see
that in VB you can do an OLE1.Copy to copy the contents of the
container to the System clipboard.  However, that still leaves two
problems:
(1) Populating the OLEContainer from the ADO field.
(2) Pasting from the System clipboard to the filesystem.  Perhaps I
could launch Explorer then issue a SendKeys, but that seems pretty
flaky.

Any ideas would be great.
Thanks,
Julian

Are you using SQL Server or Access database. In case of SQL Server there is
no OLE header and it exists only for OLE field in Access database. That
example from KB does not have anything related to OLE header and does not
use any OLE Container Control . Why do you say about OLE? It is not related
to your situation. Could you post your code, which load and reads BLOB data?

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Val Mazur
Microsoft MVP