Windows is blocking my .mdb file

[Stapes]

Hi

I have sent my client a new database as a .mdb file in a zipped file.
When she tries to extract it, it does not extract the .mdb file. When
trying to drag it across to the destination folder, it flags an error
- Windows has blocked this program. Any idea how I can fix this?

Stapes

 

[Stefan Hoffmann]

hi,

I have sent my client a new database as a .mdb file in a zipped file.
When she tries to extract it, it does not extract the .mdb file. When
trying to drag it across to the destination folder, it flags an error
- Windows has blocked this program. Any idea how I can fix this?

Windows doesn't block files. This may be either the email client, the
explorer when opening a file on a network share or a virus scanner.

What error message do you get exactly?


mfG
--> stefan <--

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Some anti-virus software is a little too intrusive.

Try changing the extension of the file from .mdb to something more
innoculous (like .xxx) and tell her to rename it once she's unzipped it.

 

[Guest]

Hi Stapes,

Here's a thread from the beginning of the year with some useful info:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...ffice-access&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

CW

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Right-click on the file. Choose properties. At the bottom of the dialog form
you'll see a button to unblock the file. If you don't see it, there may be
and "Advanced" button, push than. In either case, you should get to an
"Unblock" button that will allow you to open the file.

 

[David W. Fenton]

Right-click on the file. Choose properties. At the bottom of the
dialog form you'll see a button to unblock the file. If you don't
see it, there may be and "Advanced" button, push than. In either
case, you should get to an "Unblock" button that will allow you to
open the file.

This seems to me to be a very incomplete set of instructions, since
it doesn't say what environment it begins from. The email client?
Windows Explorer? Or???

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

According to the second sentence in the post, the user was probably in
Explorer.

"When
trying to drag it across to the destination folder, it flags an error
- Windows has blocked this program. Any idea how I can fix this?"

At least that's the way I understand it. Do you see something I missed? And
your answer would be? If you have something to add, please be my guest.

 

[David W. Fenton]

According to the second sentence in the post, the user was
probably in Explorer.

"When
trying to drag it across to the destination folder, it flags an
error - Windows has blocked this program. Any idea how I can fix
this?"

At least that's the way I understand it. Do you see something I
missed? And your answer would be? If you have something to add,
please be my guest.

I don't know. But I am certain that your instructions don't work on
my PC.

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

I don't know. But I am certain that your instructions don't work on
my PC.

Apparently your Service Packs aren't up to date. Or maybe you're still using
an older version of Windows. For the rest of us:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260

 

[David W. Fenton]

Apparently your Service Packs aren't up to date. Or maybe you're
still using an older version of Windows.

Uh, shouldn't you have taken that into account in your original
posting?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Uh, shouldn't you have taken that into account in your original
posting?

I did, which is why my answer suggested using the "Unblock" button. Windows
Attachment manager was installed with SP2, and he never would have even had
the issue beforehand. SP2 was released almost 3 years ago. To use the latest
versions of SQL-Server or Office one would have had to install it. Unless
you also used Outlook Express, you might have been unaware of the Attachment
Manager. No biggie, but it is a good idea to get the security of SP2 on your
machines.

 

[David W. Fenton]

I did, which is why my answer suggested using the "Unblock"
button.

I use Windows 2000, so I don't have it and never will.

Why do you assume that everyone is using exactly the same OS that
you are?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

I use Windows 2000, so I don't have it and never will.

Why do you assume that everyone is using exactly the same OS that
you are?

I like Win2K and think it is the best OS I've ever used. MS made XP more
secure, and Vista even moreso. I have 17 machines including 3 PDAs and 5
laptops. I have every OS from Win 3.1 on ( I have the disks, but discarded
Win Me) and I use what my clients use.

I don't assume that everyone uses the same OS, but that error only started
showing itself in Win XP-SP2, so it was easy to figure out.