Using USB Intelligent Stick with laptop (Windows ME)

[Guest bgormley]

I'm not sure what the problem is but I've been trying to transfer an Access

database to my Windows ME laptop from my desktop using a GE Intelligent Stick

USB device. I have Office 2000 installed on the laptop so it has Access 2000

on the laptop. So why can't I open the database when I try to? I keep getting

the message 'c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb' is not a valid path, etc. I've tried

opening it from the E drive (the external device) and also from the C drive,

where I've saved it.

 

Maybe someone will have an answer for this. I want to be able to take this

database on the road with me.

[Guest Mart]

Re: Using USB Intelligent Stick with laptop (Windows ME)

 

What size does Windows Explorer show the 'ohiotraders_be.mdb' file on the

memory stick to be?

 

Are you sure you've copied the actual 'ohiotraders_be.mdb' file - the

database - to your memory stick. From here, it sounds like you've only

copied the shortcut - hence it is attempting to look for the C: drive (the

C: drive of your 'other' computer!).

 

It shouldn't even be looking at a shortcut path as the 'new path' is your

memory stick and you should be looking at the .mdb file itself on the stick.

 

Mart

 

 

"bgormley" <bgormley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1042FCF1-AD61-464D-B92E-F3130E93406F@microsoft.com...

> I'm not sure what the problem is but I've been trying to transfer an

> Access

> database to my Windows ME laptop from my desktop using a GE Intelligent

> Stick

> USB device. I have Office 2000 installed on the laptop so it has Access

> 2000

> on the laptop. So why can't I open the database when I try to? I keep

> getting

> the message 'c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb' is not a valid path, etc. I've tried

> opening it from the E drive (the external device) and also from the C

> drive,

> where I've saved it.

>

> Maybe someone will have an answer for this. I want to be able to take this

> database on the road with me.

[Guest Melinda Chase]

Re: Using USB Intelligent Stick with laptop (Windows ME)

 

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here, but you say the database can't

find c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb

Is it possible that the database you have copied is the "front end" of the

database and it's looking for the "back end" of the database? The _be

designation is usually applied to the back end when Access's Database

Splitter utility is used. The front end of a database is where the forms,

reports and queries are stored, while the tables are stored in the back end.

You might have to copy ohiotraders_be.mdb to the c: drive before you'll be

able to use the database.

HTH,

Melinda

 

 

"bgormley" <bgormley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1042FCF1-AD61-464D-B92E-F3130E93406F@microsoft.com...

> I'm not sure what the problem is but I've been trying to transfer an

> Access

> database to my Windows ME laptop from my desktop using a GE Intelligent

> Stick

> USB device. I have Office 2000 installed on the laptop so it has Access

> 2000

> on the laptop. So why can't I open the database when I try to? I keep

> getting

> the message 'c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb' is not a valid path, etc. I've tried

> opening it from the E drive (the external device) and also from the C

> drive,

> where I've saved it.

>

> Maybe someone will have an answer for this. I want to be able to take this

> database on the road with me.

[Guest Mart]

Re: Using USB Intelligent Stick with laptop (Windows ME)

 

Hi Melinda, I think you're definitely up the right tree. I'd forgotten about

splitting a database and I'm sure that your explanation is the correct one.

 

Mart

 

 

"Melinda Chase" <mNOSPAMchase@hammonMUNGEtree-engineers.com> wrote in

message news:uZVNT8VyHHA.5856@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here, but you say the database can't

> find c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb

> Is it possible that the database you have copied is the "front end" of the

> database and it's looking for the "back end" of the database? The _be

> designation is usually applied to the back end when Access's Database

> Splitter utility is used. The front end of a database is where the forms,

> reports and queries are stored, while the tables are stored in the back

> end. You might have to copy ohiotraders_be.mdb to the c: drive before

> you'll be able to use the database.

> HTH,

> Melinda

>

>

> "bgormley" <bgormley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:1042FCF1-AD61-464D-B92E-F3130E93406F@microsoft.com...

>> I'm not sure what the problem is but I've been trying to transfer an

>> Access

>> database to my Windows ME laptop from my desktop using a GE Intelligent

>> Stick

>> USB device. I have Office 2000 installed on the laptop so it has Access

>> 2000

>> on the laptop. So why can't I open the database when I try to? I keep

>> getting

>> the message 'c:\ohiotraders_be.mdb' is not a valid path, etc. I've tried

>> opening it from the E drive (the external device) and also from the C

>> drive,

>> where I've saved it.

>>

>> Maybe someone will have an answer for this. I want to be able to take

>> this

>> database on the road with me.

>

>