MetConv error in Access 2007

[José António Silva]

Hello,
I have just one form, with many controls (perhaps 80 or 90), that when I
open it, I get the error “An error has occurred in the file MetConv.txt. See
MetConv.log for ad. Inform.â€.
I only have this problem in Access 2007, not in previous versions.
MetConv.log has a lot of information about conversions, like MetConv.txt, and
this ends meaning nothing to me.
I am not sure about finding a control with an error, because this error
disappears when I delete some controls, but when deleting and testing
controls one by one, there is not only one control that causes the error to
disappear.
The unique hypothesis I can make is about deleting some controls, and when
the error disappears, replace the missing controls by new ones – not a copy
of the older ones. But this is a bit difficult to me because I have a lot of
associated events and I have to reassure myself that they all will be linked
at the end of this dangerous operation.
Anybody could give me some other better suggestion??
Thanks

 

[Maurice]

Hi José,

I've had this one as well and it drove me crazy. I found a very strange
solution to this issue. See if you can do something with it.

Keep in mind it's a strange one but it works:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...2c-5f41-4c3f-9d5a-71354471dc32&displaylang=en

follow the url shown above. It's a reference to a word 2002 add-in. Yeah a
word add-in won't you believe it. It's used for updating smartart controls. I
installed this (i use 2007 as well) it's an executable so you can run it and
uninstall afterwards.

After I installed it the MetConv error was gone. It's a reference to the
metrics converter smarttag.

After investigating further I found out i was using a couple of fields where
the smarttag option was enabled (table, fieldproperties last field). You can
try to set these to not use this might help as well. If it doesn't try the
add-in. Remember all you have to do is install and that's it. Start Access
see if it works and then uninstall the add-in under control panel - add
remove programs.

I told you it is a strange solution but it worked for me ;-)

hth

 

[José António Silva]

Sorry to answer only now. I appreciated your answer but I can’t do what you
suggested. That’s because I’m currently deploying compiled accde files to
several clients within several different organizations. And I do not intend
to suggest to every IT admin this strange tool - as you perfectly have
described it.
Anyway, I continue to do not know the reason behind all this. I don’t have
any smartag option enable, since all tables are linked to SQL tables, which
don’t have themselves any similar property.
Meanwhile, I could see in google search some other people describing exactly
what I posted here. And I haven’t seen no answer, till now.
If anybody could tell something more about this, please feel free to do it.
It continues to be necessary!
Thanks,
José António Silva