[AccessD] I need paid help immediately

Hi Arthur,

I'm on vacation in Jupiter and able to help
if you still need code.

Mike Mattys

---- Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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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