I have a hyperlink field that the user drag's and drops a file into. It seems
to be working fine IF the user pulls from the "Public" sector of their
machine, but all other locations it's pulling a relative path "..\..\". Is
there any way to convert this to an absolute address?

[Daddy Bear]

It seems that the Access Front end must be local to force absolute path definitions. If it is on the network then it insists on using relative locations (kinda makes sense if you read all the blurb).

I have 'discovered' this by dragging and dropping a file onto a hyperlink field, and then wishing to copy the file in the after_update event. The copy is via FileSystemObjects CopyFile method which always wants absolute paths (of course). My database (2007) was on a network share and always threw 'path not found' for the source file...until I moved it to my PC.

HTH anyone who's been fumbling around looking for a solution