MS Access, exclusive database access

[Guest]

I created an Access Database. After compacting the database, I moved both the
'mdb' and 'mde' to our Citrix server. All my users are accessing the 'mde'.
For myself when I go to the mdb and try to go in the development mode and
create a form or a report, I get the following message:

'You dont have exclusive access to database at this time. If you proceed to
make changes, you may not be able to save them later.' When I am the only one
in that particular 'mdb', is there a reason for this message? Just a side
note my database is password protected.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Does the MDE contain any links to tables in the MDB?

Are the MDB and the MDE in the same folder? If so, does moving the MDB to a
different folder make any difference?

 

[Guest]

Very strange but it worked. What I did was to create another folder and move
the MDB to it and it worked.

FYI MDB and MDE donot have a link.

Thanks a lot for the help.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

It's probably the MDW workgroup/record-locking file - if the MDB and the MDE
are in the same folder, and the names are the same except for the extension,
they'll both try to create a MDW with the same name - e.g., SomeFile.mdb and
SomeFile.mde will both try to create a file named SomeFile.mdw.