John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Aug 18 08:16:03 CDT 2005
Ahh.. OK, I did not know that. That is not true for later versions correct? I.e. AXP does not even attempt to "convert" an A2K app to AXP so this isn't an issue, correct? As for "having to start from scratch" on those amateur apps, believe me that is a blessing! John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:11 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] MDE question 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com