jack drawbridge
jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue May 28 06:50:10 CDT 2013
Doug, Do you happen to have the "save files as accdb" turned on? I just loaded Acc2010 recently and each file I looked at got saved with accdb. I then set the "save files as 2003 or similar and I then had mdb files. I'm wondering if your default/current setting is 2007/2010, then you might get accdb automatically. ie nothing to do with dropbox??? jack On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >