[AccessD] Dropbox/MS Access problem.

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
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