Mapping to Database

[Guest]

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?

 

[Van T. Dinh]

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.