I created a db for friend and now he is having issues when he tries to export the results of a query to his external zip drive. He can export to his internal without issue. He was able to do it weeks ago. I asked if he did any updates and stuff like that but he said nothing out of the ordinary. I went to tools> db utilities> Compact and repair db but that didn't do anything.

Any suggestion on what could be causing this?

What does "having issues" mean? Does his wife yell at him? Does his monitor explode? How does he know that it doesn't work?

Give us something to work with.

How is he trying to export them? Through the menu options in the Access Window, or is it some VBA code built into an Access application that's trying to perform the export?

My apologies. His issues was an error message "Failure Creating File". He got this when using the export feature after he selected the query and went to File> Export.

In the meantime I inserted a new drive and it now works with the new drive. So I'm hoping a re-format of his drive will solve the issue.

George and Atomic thank you for your response.