Help with Globe.wmf

[jonnynez1]

Hi everyone, really sorry to bother you all but maybe someone could stop me from going crazy. I have an elderly gentleman as a friend who helps out running the local giant vegetable growing club and he had a access file created for the weekly letter draw (like a mini lottery) a long time ago in 2003/4. The file was created with access 2003 running winows xp.

When the old gents laptop hard drive gave up he lost everything but the file he had on usb and i have a right struggle to get it usable again. Another program is not an option as the gent is 89 and only uses this program and to old to learn anything new (his words)..I have got the program running on a newer laptop running windows 8.1 with VMware running windows xp and i have fixed all the security problems but only one problem remains.when i open the file or any page within the file i get the following

Microsoft Access Cant't open the file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft office\Office\Bitmaps\Styles\GLOBE.WMF

I have a feeling this may be something silly and a easy fix for someone but what was me doing a gent a favor has got me going nuts..

Any ideas

 

[CJ_London]

.wmf files are images (which you probably gathered from the path) and the description implies it is a picture of the planet, that that is just a guess

Not sure what you mean by any page? do you mean form? If so then you will no doubt have an image control or button with a picture and the path (per your post) is what is specified to appear - per your post.

I can't find a globe.wmf on my system and the path you have looks out of date for modern windows - I would expect something like this for the first part of the path

C:\Program Files\Microsoft office\Officexx - where xx relates to the version of office you are running.

or perhaps if you have installed access 2003 in which case it is probably

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft office\Officexx

 

[Grumm]

I think that since it was an old access file, the file tries to find that GLOBE.WMF
Maybe with converting the database it will work fine : https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...e-format-098DDD31-5F84-4E89-8F44-DB0CF7C11ACD

 

[jonnynez1]

Thanks for the help folks, i tried converting the file to 2007 and problem still remains...it is just a picture link as already mentioned...I would rather just remove the mage all together if possible but unsure how to do that

thanks all

 

[Grumm]

Well you will need to open the file and see where it is used. This can be a background of a form or an icon on a button. So you will have to find it with some patience.
Maybe the database uses a style that doesn't exist anymore.
(If you want you can post the database here and I can check with office 2016)

 

[jonnynez1]

Thanks, i have attached the file,

 

[bob fitz]

Change the forms "Picture Type" property to Embedded

 

[Tieval]

Change the forms "Picture Type" property to Embedded

Yes, Bob means literally, if you look at the properties for the main form it shows file type 'linked' and picture 'none' but has got in a muddle somewhere. Just change picture type to 'embedded' save and away you go.

 

[jonnynez1]

I have done it, changed picture type on all forms from linked to embedded and put the background as a embedded bitmap...checked on 3 pc and works great..thank you everyone..This has saved me hours and made an old chaps life a lot easier..cheers