Downloading Snapshot (.SNP) Files Over The Internet

[Guest]

I have an established web site where I am dynamically generating Snapshot
files for clients to retrieve after they are posted. Most users have no
problems opening or downloading the files. When it asks if they want to OPEN
or SAVE the file, it usually has no problem and has the correct suffix
associated with it (i.e. .SNP).

However, I have noticed that any computer that happens to have MS ACCESS
seems to want to download the file as a .MDB or Access file. Now of course
the suffix can be changed for saving, but it cannot if a person simply wants
to OPEN and print the file.

I have another computer here in my office with the same version of Windows
and Snapshot Viewer application. However, because it does not have Access,
it will OPEN or SAVE the file as a .SNP file correctly.

Last week, I repeated this same scenario in the client's office with the
same results.

I have checked the File Associations in Folder options and the OPEN commands
are the same and point to the same application. Something else is causing
this to not function correctly and I was hoping that someone out there might
shed some light on it.

Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts or solutions for this issue.

Kindest Regards,

ros_skeeter

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Which version of Access? I cannot repeat your scenario with Access 2002. It
works fine for us and we all have Access.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Also, you may want to use one of the free PDF file creating programs
(CutePDF is one of them). I use Win2PDF which isn't free, but is inexpensive
and very fast. Everyone can open a PDF, even MAC and Linux users.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Guest]

I personally have Access 2003 on my PC. The user I found last week, actually
has an older version, either 97 or 2000. I have another user who has MS
Access (not sure the version), but is also getting the .MDB suffix when
either trying to OPEN from IE or SAVE.

The odd thing is that we never have the problem when we try to open a .SNP
file that is local to the machine. Additionally others do not have that
issue when downloading/opening from our site who do not have Access and only
Snapshot.

I could set up a dummy page on my site for you to try and download a .SNP
file and see if you experience the same problems we are having, but I am not
certain you would get the .MDB extension if you are not now with your own
site.

Also, I have used CutePDF for making Adobe files straight from files on my
PC and do love it!

The only thing is that currently we have an Autoform Module that generates
the Snapshot (if data is available) automatically via a VB script within
ACCESS every 4 minutes. I am not certain how to do that with a PDF file and
make it automatically write there without having to manually tell it to PRINT
and then enter in the file name and click OK afterwards. And of course it
isn't feasible to do it manually for each document.

If you know how to or can refer me to information that would assist me in
doing this though, I would certainly be interested in such.

In the meantime, I appreciate you at least trying to help with the current
problem of Snapshot and figuring out the suffix problem. Please let me know
if I can provide any additional information or answer any questions to help
figure this out.

Kindest Regards,

rod_skeeter

 

[Guest]

Just checked with third person who is having this issue at another location.
They have Access 2000 on their machine and are getting the same results when
being asked to OPEN or SAVE (i.e. .MDB suffix).

Could there be something with the browser that could be doing this? I am
using IE 6.0.2900+.

So far though, MS Access seems to be the only common denominator at this
point. Most all users including the ones that are downloading successfully
are using XP as am I.

Thanks in advance for any help, advice or suggestions you might have.

Kindest Regards,

rod_skeeter

 

[Stephen Lebans]

I'm sure I have seen this issue before in the NG's. Have you used
GoogleGroups to research this issue? If I remember correctly it was a
Registry issue.

--

HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.

 

[Guest]

Have not tried Google yet. Started here since it was the most logical place.
When I did a search for Downloading of .SNP files or Snapshot files, I got a
few hits, but nothing that seemd to address this issue.

I will check there as you have suggested. If you have any other thoughts,
please feel free to forward them.

Thanks for writing.

Kindest Regards,

rod_skeeter

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

To add to my last post, Stephen Lebans has built an Access/PDF report
generator that you may also want to look at:

http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Guest]

It seems to me that Access must be registering .SNP as an
Access type with IE. I don't know of any way to see the
list of registry entries created by A2K+

I guess I'd start by looking in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\plugins
and in Hkey Classes Root,
but I would only be guessing.

(david)

 

[kevin.baert]

Had the same problem: snp files opened as mdb through IE.

There is a very simple solution:

* on the webserver start regedit
* HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.snp
* change the Content Type from application/msaccess to
application/octet stream


cheers

K