[wdiadamo]

First, thanks for the help and lucid explanations. It looks like I was dealing with two issues, which squared my confusion.

In fact, you are correct that I was only getting links in my clippings, notthee actual files. I was confused by the icons, and by the size of my database. Apparently, because I failed to sync over the holidays or somesuch, my database grew to 14+ mb. I looked in the Omnifocus.ofocus file, and it looked like I had some huge attachments in there that I could not get out. (I thnk there is a thread about this possible bug.) In any case, it seems like the sync problem is the cause of my size issues (bigger is not always better it seems), and not large clippe attachments.

Anyway, I am now dealing with the sync issue, and apparently do not have a clipping issue. In any case, thanks again for your quick and learned assistance.