Genuine thanks for your interest!

We've been through literally weeks of research on the subject including numerous posts on the forum and extended dialogue with support and we've run out of ideas.

To quote you jcl from a previous thread on the subject of retrieving text files:
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I believe the reason that it doesn't work for you was possibly a bug. Wait for the next update that will come out soon. If it then still does not work with the procedure from the above manual page, contact Support. We'll then walk you step by step through the process.


Yeah, I'm aware that not all engine functions can read from a resource- I use file_cpy to extract an image first, for example, as the docs instruct.

There are numerous other solutions out there to protect and compress the data, and I've already poured a lot of time into the issue, so I'm just going to move on.