I agree with your interpretation. All my pictures except one (by accident) are in the same folder. The path to the exception is in tblBP. So, I think that if all the pictures are in the one location pointed to in Customise>Options>Locations all should be fine. I tried it a while back and it seemed to work. Agree with your suggestion, though, to check on a small database first.
Sorry I misinterpreted the bit about offline folders. Cheers, Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Kowallek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Offline folders
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:15:38 -0000, "Jack Earnshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I only use Legacy, don't play around in Access. If you look in the Options/Customise/Locations there is a setting for Pictures. I have it set to the local machine on one and a network address on the other - and both machines can see the pictures! So, I think it is set in the program .usr files
What is set in Options/Customise/Location is the "default" location. If you
select a picture from a directory other than the default location, its path
gets stored in tblBP. (Sherry can correct me if I'm wrong.) If all you use is
the default location for pictures, sounds, and videos, then you probably will
not encounter any problems. You can click "View Current List of Multimedia
Locations" to see if you are using additional locations. (I think this just
displays the contents of tblBP.)
Regardless, we've gone off on a slight tangent as the OP is trying to set up
"offline folders", which is a little different than simply sharing a single
Legacy database on a networked computer (see Windows XP Help on "offline
folders"). It sounds like the offline computer actually gets its own copy of
the file/folder, which then has to be "synchronized" when the offline computer
rejoins the network. (Sounds a little messy and potentially dangerous to me.)
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Dennis M. Kowallek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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