[AccessD] Dropbox/MS Access problem.

William Benson vbacreations at gmail.com
Thu May 30 00:18:47 CDT 2013


If you open an mdb and work on it in access 2007/2010 appli cation, it
should leave it as an mdb unless you convert it. The setting you mentioned
is supposed to deal with new databases, not magically convert and upgrade
existing databases. That wouls create chaos in multiuser environments.

That just seems wrong. It has to be how it is being published, not just
worked in... ???
On May 28, 2013 7:52 AM, "jack drawbridge" <jackandpat.d at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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