Tempest in a teacup

I am currently working on organizing the Thea van Oosten's reference collection of plastic artefacts. I was a superstar up until yesterday. I had completed assigning numbers to each object, inventorying the collection and taking simple "ID" photos with the limited camera setup. I began my next phase which was to enter the objects and their photos into the database, along with descriptions and measurements. Simple, right?

Wrong.

Things were just hunkydory until I got to this one particular blue teacup (yes CCMers, I know this is an atrocious photo, but I am doing the best I can with no tripod and bad lights).

I did not know it at the time, but this teacup would be the undoing of myself and the database. When I entered the photo, it showed up in the database like this.


Annoyed, I tried to re-enter the photo. This is an approximation of what happened.

There thought it was best to shut the program down and re-start. So far over 300 photos had been entered without any issue. So once the program was ready, I thought I'd try to enter the photo one last time.

Cursing my fate, I was very close to giving up. Then I realized... maybe the file was too large for the system to handle. Ha ha ha. Silly me, I just need to resize the photo. I did, and this is what happened.

This is an actual photo of the database screen. Yes. That is a tiny image of a teacup. I had to call my collegues over to make sure that I wasn't losing my mind. Anna quipped, "let me know if a bowl of soup shows up. Then we know it's time to go home and have dinner." I'm holding out for a wineglass, but a bowl of soup will do.