Suppress Read-Only Message on Database

[Guest]

I have a small database called FileFinder that I want to keep on a CD along
with a couple hundred AutoCAD drawings. FileFinder serves as a small search
engine that allows a user to figure out which drawing contains the desired
information. This database is and should be read-only.

However, I don't want to annoy my users with the "This database is
read-only" pop up every time they open it. Aside from making the database
read/write, is there any way to suppress this? Turning warnings off,
anything like that?

Along those same lines - if you burn a database to a CD-RW, will it retain
it's read/write properties? I can just as easily require that my users use
CD-RW's instead of CD-R's. (They'll be periodically re-creating the drawing
collection anyway, since new drawings are always being produced by the
drafting department. They might as well use a CD-RW.)

-Amanda

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

There's no reliable way of suppressing the read-only message that I've ever
found. Supposedly you can use Automation, but I've never gotten that to work
to my satisfaction.

I don't believe a CD-RW will solve the problem.

 

[Larry Daugherty]

Hi Amanda,

You can copy an MDB from CD to hd and then reset the Read-Only attribute
using Windows Explorer.

If your users will be updating data then you must do the above or use the
CDRW solution.

HTH