[AccessD] MDE question

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Aug 18 08:11:24 CDT 2005


On 18 Aug 2005 at 8:44, John W. Colby wrote:

 
> CONTAINER:  If your users use A97, A2K, AXP and A2003, it should be possible
> to build the mde in and A97 container and all of these versions should be
> able to open the thing and use it. 

No!  Definitely not. A2K/XP can't open an A97 MDE.  If you try, will be 
asked whether you want to open or convert it, but which ever option you 
choose, you will then get a msgbox saying "You can't convert or enable an 
MDE file."  You can link to it or import the tables and queries from it but 
you can't open or run it.

I'm running into this frequently at present.  I'm upgrading all the inhouse 
applications for a group of companies.  Many of these were created by 
dabblers and they are a real mess.  Unfortunately some of them are only 
available as MDEs and they are totally unconvertible.  Best I can do is 
extract the data and recreate the functionality in a new FE.




-- 
Stuart





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