[AccessD] I need paid help immediately

Hi Arthur,

I am definately not the person for this gig, but it might be worth mentioning what version of Access this was built in can see if they can help.

If you want to send me a zipped copy, I can see if it opens here ok or not (naturally, this offer is for no charge!).  I only have Access 2000 at work so I don't know if that will help you out for not?

Good luck - This kind of stress you don't need at the best of times...

Darryl.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Friday, 22 August 2008 9:41 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] I need paid help immediately


Dear list,

I have a serious problem on my hands. I have a fairly simple app that is
almost entirely done but something bizarre has happened: the client is able
to run the app but I am not. It crashes Access immediately after the login
screen. I have two computers available, my box at work running Office 2003
on XP, and my box at home running Vista. Both crash immediately after the
login.

Now for the bizarre part: the user does not experience this problem. In all
my programming experience it's been the other way around; I can run the code
but something is amiss on the client's box. Not this time. I don't know what
happened to my notebook, and the box at work is completely new to this app,
but both crash Access immediately after you press Enter on the login screen.
But not on the client's computer! After login, I open two forms, one of
which is like a switchboard and the other is a navigable screen that
presents the table of principal interest. All of this used to work on my
laptop until about 2 weeks ago. The client pointed a few things that didn't
work as expected, which is to be expected, and I started out trying to fix
them, when suddenly I could not open the app. I tried creating a new app and
importing all the stuff from the old app, to no avail. Something serious is
wrong, and not only on my home computer but also on my home computer.

I am too busy in my new job to figure this out and take it to the goalposts.
I would estimate that there is one day remaining to fix the problems, and
I'm willing to pay $50 US an hour (that's all I'm allegedly making, although
this part comes out of my pocket not the client's). I can supply reasonably
precise documentation of the remaining problems from the client (she is good
at gathering and consolidating this stuff from her five or so testers).

Not only am I too busy with the current project to take this to a touchdown,
but for some unexplained reasons I am unable even to open the app -- but the
client can!  She sends me a zip of the previous version, which runs on her
computer, and used to run on mine, but now it won't.

I have been working my way backwards through all the previous versions
(which are pretty much but not always daily) trying to find the last stable
one. I am having serious problems and I don't know what is wrong.

So. Bottom line is: I need somebody to take this the remaining 10% of the
way. This is going to be on my nickel, and all I can afford to pay is $50 US
an hour. I think that the fixes required would take 1 day of a skilled VBA
programmer's time. Is anyone immediately available? (You gotta be skilled.)
It's up to me to pay for this service, and I will pay immediately upon
success. I would finish this myself if only I could get past the load/run
problems, but I immediately cannot and I have other fish to fry.

So if any of you are interested, please private me asap. I need to wrap this
up. I can supply a description of the app and code and even the
halfway-completed user guide, and an email trail from the various testers.
But I just don't have the time to complete it. I need it to be completed,
but due to the demise of one of our small crew here in Bermuda, I'm suddenly
saddled with 12-hour days 7 days a week, and I cannot complete this project
myself. I need help and I am willing to pay for it (maybe $50/hr. is less
than you make, and I don't mean to insult you with this offer, but I
accepted the gig for slightly less than that, and we've already spent the
budget so completion is going to come out of my pocket, and that rate is the
best I can offer.)

Anyone willing to bite this fish-hook? I need help and I need it yesterday.
The app is not particularly complex but I'm too busy on my current stuff to
attend to this.

TIA,
Arthur
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