[AccessD] LatestBrightIdea take 3

[Arthur Fuller]

I have seen this problem (the appended 2 to the original name). It has
something to do with hidden files, and I have no idea how that stuff
works.What I di know is that when I import something, it ends up named
xyx2.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:44 AM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> What was the format of the database you exported from, ACCDB or MDB?
>
> 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.
> >
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Arthur