Mapping to Database

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New user, XPPro, Access 2002
We got a database that we've copied onto our laptop, and we have Access.
When I open Access and try to retrieve the dbase, I get "not a valid path",
etc. It's a stand-alone laptop, no server. Never used Access before. I put
the right path for the dbase into the options field like a file location, but
it refuses it saying it can change to this. Is there some convention about
installing the dbase so the software understands where it is?
 
Lots of possible problems depending on the design of the database:

* The database application may have been split to 2 database files: the
Front-End (GUI) and the Back-End (data). Obviously, 1 file out of 2 won't
work correctly.

* Explicit paths are used in the database, possibly at start-up which will
not be correct when you copied the database onto the laptop.

* Some security tricks set in the design of the database, e.g. on opening,
the database looks for (the existence) of a file on the PC.

Ask whoever looks after the database in your office is your best bet.
 

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