[AccessD] Upgrading to Access 2002 from A2K

Mark Whittinghill mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com
Wed May 7 17:12:50 CDT 2003


Jim,

   I have seen weirdness in references also.  Such as, not having DAO on the
references list, or having Excel 5.0 library instead of Excel 9.0, stuff
like that.  Closing and reopening fixed that.

Mark Whittinghill
Symphony Information Services
612-333-1311
mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lawrence (AccessD)" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Upgrading to Access 2002 from A2K


> Hi Mark:
>
> I had some problems with A2K running on WinXP but after there was an
upgrade
> to AXP the specific set of problems have seemed to disappear. There were
> some code issues and they were fixed and it seems to be a stable product
> except forr one issue. I found was the references did not seem to
initially
> auto-connect and I had to check every API call.
>
> HTH
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Whittinghill
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:51 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] Upgrading to Access 2002 from A2K
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>   Recently my computer died due to power source failure, though I was able
> to recover files later.  I was due to upgrade my computer here anyway, so
I
> now have a new computer with Windows XP, the old one was Windows 2000.  We
> have yet to do any work in Access 2002.  Some of our clients use that, but
> we just send Access 2000 versions.
>
>   I never used to have problems with Access 2000, though I have read many
> posts from people who had.  Now that I have Windows XP,  I am having
crashes
> all the time, with the "Send Error Report"  dialog box.  Twice in the last
> couple weeks I have had things get corrupted so bad that I just had to
> restore my file from an earlier version and flush my work for the day down
> the toilet.  Based on what I am hearing of Access 2002, I am thinking that
I
> should just upgrade to that, even though I work in 2000 file format.  Are
> there any downsides to doing that?  Thanks for any advice.
>
> Mark Whittinghill
> Symphony Information Services
> 612-333-1311
> mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com
>
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