[AccessD] Find and Replace

[Rocky Smolin]

THanks Ji and Gustav.  I'll try the 30 day trial.

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:38 AM Jim Dettman via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

>
>  It's a shame that Rick's tool is now un-supported.
>
> A number of people and myself have tried to track down someone that would
> be
> able to release the source code, but to no avail.   Apparently, Rick felt
> the code was messy and didn't want others to see it, but from my viewpoint,
> it did the job and did it very well.   I wish he was still here to be able
> to tell him that (we assumed that he has past).
>
> If you can't get it working as David suggested, there is a new F&R utility
> out there:
>
> https://accessdevtools.com/product/find-and-replace/   by Philipp Stiefel
>
> This is a almost brand new utility (been out for a year or two) and is
> written in .Net, unlike Rick's tool, which was VBA based.
>
> and for documenting/pulling a DB apart, there Total Access Analyzer from
> FMS, Inc.
>
> http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/BestPractices.html
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 11:05 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: [AccessD] Find and Replace
>
> One of my (last) clients has a major redesign of a system I wrote for him
> to run one of his three businesses. It gives me a chance to clean up a lot
> of stuff that's been left over from previous revisions.
>
> I used to use Fisher's Find and Replace but apparently he went away leaving
> me with an orphan app that doesn't work. It was a brilliant piece of work
> in its day but it's dead now.
>
> Is there something similar - not just to find a replace, but to tell me if
> a query or a report, or a module is no longer referenced in the database?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
> Beach Access Software
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