attachment Help

I recently acquired a forum site and I am just learning the forum software and now I have a problem. I have been told by my server people that my image blob file is 3gb in size and the Mysql database can't handle it getting any bigger.

I don't know what to do. I don't want to lose all of those pictures, but I want members to be able to post new pictures soon.

I was hoping there would be a way to save the images outside of the database in a Directory, but I still want them to be visible on the forum page with out an attachment icon.