If the data is gone, then there's a very good chance the data hasn't
actually copied over. I suspect the link, not the actual data, is what's
being seen.
Regards
Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
"Amateur" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:AC7C083E-9ADE-4802-B5BB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Jeff
> You are correct, when my laptop is not connected to my desktop, the links
> won't work, but the data which was transferred before, is gone as well -
> that
> is my problem and I don't know how to solve that.
> In short, as soon as I have the base on my Laptop my tables are emtpy.
> Any idea why and how I can avoid that?
> Regards
> Klaus
>
> "Jeff Boyce" wrote:
>
>> If you "link" from your laptop to the desktop tables, you can run append
>> and/or update queries against the data in the desktop system, to update
>> the
>> tables in the laptop system.
>>
>> When your laptop is not connected to your desktop, the links won't work
>> (but
>> then, you would have already copied the data you need into your laptop
>> tables, right?!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jeff Boyce
>> Microsoft Office/Access MVP
>>
>>
>> "Amateur" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:05F238D5-726B-4371-97C2-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Dear Sirs
>> > I have two Access databases where I copy a table from one to the other
>> > database on the same computer.
>> > The purpose of this is that I need the target database (which is much
>> > smaller than the source database) on my lap-top for marketing purposes.
>> > So, as long as I have the target database table on my computer (where
>> > as
>> > well the source database is) everything is fine and I can see the data.
>> > As
>> > soon as I transfer the target database to my lap-top all data is gone.
>> > How can I avoid this?
>>
>>
>>
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