[AccessD] Access 2002 - Another way to lose your work

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 02:18:26 CDT 2008


Me too.  I could never figure out AND remember if it was the one I clicked
on that was saved or the ones that I didn't click on and if I got it wrong,
I lost work.  So for me, same as Robert, I save the lot!  Call me a coward
but there we have it!
Max



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Robert <robert at servicexp.com> wrote:

> Well,
>  I have experienced it many times over the last 8 years, from 2002 to 2007.
> I now simply allow the save to take place on all the objects, it's just not
> worth the risk, in my opinion.
>
>
> WBR
>  ~Robert
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:52 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2002 - Another way to lose your work
>
> If you mean the vaporizing of work done in other objects then I'm not sure
> I
> agree. I have often done what I described, save just a subset of the list
> of
> changed objects, and then continued to work on the other, still unchanged
> ones. This is the first time I've ever lost anything when I made that
> choice. That was true in Access 97 and Access 2002 (which I'm using right
> now). ????
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:43 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2002 - Another way to lose your work
>
> I believe that it's a bug from way back, and is still present in Access
> 2007
>
>
> WBR
>  ~Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:57 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2002 - Another way to lose your work
>
> No good I'm afraid. Directly after opening an MDB file ? SetWarnings
> returned a blank line.
>
> If I then type DoCmd.SetWarnings False, then ? SetWarnings still returns a
> blank line.
>
> If I type DoCmd.SetWarnings True, then ? SetWarnings still returns a blank
> line.
>
> As for my lost work, the fact that the list of changed objects opened up
> when I hit the save button tells me that SetWarnings was True, but I still
> cannot figure out why the one object (a form) got saved, and all the other
> changes (to code modules) got blown away.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:15 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2002 - Another way to lose your work
>
> You can go into the immediate window and type ? SetWarnings
>
> should return blank/nothing or False
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Heenan, Lambert
> <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com>wrote:
>
> > Cross posted to Access-L and Access-D
> >
> > Ever seen this happen? I just lost 90 minutes of work this morning...
> >
> > The scenario was I had a couple of modules open, and a form module,
> > and another from. Had a few bookmarks set to a could jump between
> > modules/functions.
> >
> > After working on one of the forms I hit the Save button and I got the
> > usual listbox showing the altered objects in my project. I deselected
> > all the objects other than the form I wanted to save at that point and
> > then when I returned to an open module the first thing I noticed was
> > that I had no bookmarks set anymore. The next thing I noticed was that
> > all the code I had just written had vaporized. Aaargghh!!!
> >
> > The only think I can think of that might cause this is that
> > SetWarnings may have been set to False, but why, when I did not close
> > any of the altered objects, did my changes get blown away?
> >
> > Any way to tell in code if SetWarnings = False?
> >
> > Lambert
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