This could simply be an intermittent network problem or a disk that is starting to fail and does a lot of retries or a timeout value that is not realistic.
If it continues over time, use the process of elimination to determine what is amiss. HALinNY => -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Davies => Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 04:58 => To: [email protected] => Subject: [NF] ms Access DDE => => => someone on this list mentions DDE and within minutes I get a => call from a user whose [secured] Access database has fallen over: => => error 8063 => "The DDE channel is established, but the data exchange => wasn't completed in the amount of time specified in the => OLE/DDE Timeout setting in the Options dialog box (Tools => menu). To continue waiting for the data exchange to be => completed, click Yes.* To cancel the data exchange and try => again later, click No . " => => Anybody got any ideas/ suggestions please => => Andrew Davies MBCS CITP _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

