[AccessD] Dropbox for Access distribution

Robert Stewart rls at WeBeDb.com
Thu Sep 13 13:48:42 CDT 2012


I have not tried it, but I distribute other files this way.
It could be done and would work well once the client subscribed to Dropbox.



At 09:42 PM 9/12/2012, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:19:14 -0400
>From: jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>         <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [AccessD] Dropbox for Access distribution
>Message-ID: <5050C412.1070303 at colbyconsulting.com>
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>Has anyone tried using Dropbox to distribute Access FEs or libraries 
>to remote clients?
>
>It seems like one could set up a dropbox directory on the remote 
>machine and a batch file or other
>system which copies the files to the run location and then opens the 
>database.  Similar to what I do
>on a network where the batch file copies from the server to the run location.

Robert L. Stewart
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