Windows LOAD_FILE

[craig hamilton]

I'm having a problem with LOAD_FILE on windows 10. I've used:

mysql> select load_file("C:/build/svn/bjrlfcwebsite/images/male.jpg");

which results in NULL. My image is only 8192 bytes with max_allowed_packet set to 4194304, so that should not be the problem. My grants are as follows:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION
GRANT PROXY ON ''@'' TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION

The file resides on my development machine along with the server and all users have full control of the file.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.