[AccessD] LatestBrightIdea take 3

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 12:21:53 CST 2022


For whatever reason, saving tables as text is apparently not supported.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:37 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am testing the idea of exporting stuff and later building out a db by
> importing it back in.  The first thing I ran into was Access 2019 able to
> open an mdb and exporting a form, but importing the form back in caused an
> error because I created an accdb to do the import into.  Apparently there
> is something in the text file which marks it as an mdb source and refuses
> to load it back into an accdb.
>
> I opened the mdb and did a save as acdb, at which point the import worked.
>
> So far only exporting the form object.  However the form object imported
> back in (with a 2 at the end of the name) allowed the form to work just
> fine.
>
> Some progress.
>
> --
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>


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John W. Colby
Colby Consulting


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