Images should not be in exported Geopackages

[AndrewM-]

Most of the time, I want to email or sync a geopackage back to the GIS department. They do not need or even want the photos. They only need to make maps of where I have been and from the data that I have collected. I am using TerraFlex for structured data collection and it syncs data including photos back to the cloud. If the cellular network is patchy as it is in most of Australia, we get sync failures or synchronisation takes a very long time. For this reason, I would like geopackages to remain small and any photos to be exported to a folder.

As of right now, I am not sure how to view photos embedded in a sqlite database within QGIS. I would have to export them first and then import the geotagged photos into QGIS. I am not sure that I can use photos within a geopackage directly.

As least provide the option of exporting a geopackage with/without photos.