Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Mon May 27 14:11:47 CDT 2013
I got a baffled call from a client this morning, wanting to know why I had changed their back end from an .mdb file to an .accdb file. I said I had downloaded the accdb file from their Dropbox account to work on it. The client said they didn't have an accdb file on Dropbox. Assuming that I had had (yet another) senior moment, I logged in and sure enough, the copy of the back end was definitely an mdb. Then, before my very eyes, as soon as I clicked on the mdb file to download it, Dropbox changed the extension to 'accdb' on my computer (which only has Office 2010 installed). Arghhh! I checked, and Dropbox doesn't do any conversion - it's just an mdb with the wrong extension. So be warned! Doug