Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Tue Jun 2 23:00:17 CDT 2009
Oh, you misunderstood. I've used decompile a lot to unscramble hosed mdbs. I was wondering why you needed it in this particular case. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:04 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office on a server - where did it go? > Why do you need to do decompile (just curious). Decompile is a tool that, when you need it there is no substitute. I am amazed that you have apparently never used it? I just set up a decompile shortcut in every machine I do development, kind of as a standard thing. There if I need it. I cannot count the times that it has solved problems in the last 10 years. > Can you copy the FE to your machine, decompile, and replace? The server at their office is "my machine" unless you mean my machine at my office, in which case yes I could but it is clumsy, and slow. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Rocky Smolin wrote: > Why do you need to do decompile (just curious). > > Can you copy the FE to your machine, decompile, and replace? > > Rocky > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:36 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] Office on a server - where did it go? > > One client has a server running Windows 2003 and SQL Server as a BE to > various Access FEs. I was brought back in to this client because the > company that did the conversion from Access BE to SQL Server was not > doing what they said they would do. Anyway... > > I use VPN and remote desktop to remote in to the server. It is my dev > machine simply because they do not have another machine to set me up on. > > My problem is that they installed Office on this thing (I guess), or > at least I can use office on this thing but I cannot FIND the actual > office install. In order to get a /decompile going I need to use a > shortcut to the actual Access EXE and then use the /Decompile switch. > Or at least that is how I know to do it. > > Since I cannot find the exe on the machine I am unable to do this. > Needless to say, Decompile is rather important. > > I think what is going on is that the office was made part of a domain > that exists at another office. > As such I am guessing that my user is "virtual" or whatever you call > it, and thus it can use office even though it is actually installed > somewhere else, probably in that other office. > > Has anyone ever run into this? > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com