Offline Folders or Not?

[Keith]

I have changed my server policy so that if I use Microsoft's Offile Folders
it will now allow me to sync MDF files.

However, I got to thinking whether it was a good idea.

Can anyone tell me why I wouldn't want to do this? The files are all
single-user MDBs so would only get used in one place.

What sort of problems (if any) might I encounter by using Offline Folders
with Access DBs?

 

[Tony Toews]

I have changed my server policy so that if I use Microsoft's Offile Folders
it will now allow me to sync MDF files.

However, I got to thinking whether it was a good idea.

Can anyone tell me why I wouldn't want to do this? The files are all
single-user MDBs so would only get used in one place.

What sort of problems (if any) might I encounter by using Offline Folders
with Access DBs?

MS may have improved them but offline folders basically sucked for me.
I wasn't using them with Access but for other purposes software was
dying within five or ten minutes.

In your situation, so long as they are single user only, then I'd
suggest trying it.

Tony

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