Recent content by Cotswold

Sometimes a client would come up with what they thought was a brilliant idea that would massively improve my software. It was such a good idea that they thought I should add for free. Only problem was that the idea was very company specific, just theirs in fact. When I told them that I would...

It has been my experience back in the days when I sold commercial software that if a backup is started when the BE is in use somewhere, editing or not, it will be incomplete. I would advise customers to do at least Odd and Even backups onto separate odd and even disks, or USBs. That way they...

It does appear that you aren't far out there Isaac.

There is definitely no macro. Only the autoexec which I always have renamed on the FE as Autoexec1 to prevent it working during development. Neither do I have the display form set. I have never used macros in access except for Autoexec because when I started out with Access they just seemed more...

Thanks Sonic but it seemed that I spent most of yesterday afternoon doing that. I have added the folders with this issue into Trusted Locations. All with the main Folders individually set as trusted and in desperation I also added the paths to its subfolders. Even with a separate line in trusted...

Thanks for that Doc. But I'm not running the database, I'm just opening it to alter, amend and update forms etc. If I open it in its original folder, no probs. Transferred to my current folder up comes the error. I don't have any macros In the database. It makes no sense and hours wasted...

I have recently started with security and Trust Centre problems. Up until then I have never had the need to even look at Trust Centre, never mind use it. I now have all folders used by Access set to Trusted and with subfolders ticked. The copy of Access in use is 2019 and it is set not to be...

It depends where you live in England. When we lived in the North, near the Lakes it wasn't unusual to have 36 hours of rain. Further south in Gloucestershire I haven't seen more than six or eight hours of rain in over ten years. The only downside of living further south is that I need to give...

I have all those set, imagining that my selections will be observed. But I am somewhat suspect. The impression I had was that Notepad was an application that didn't look up those settings. A bit in the way that Notepad++ and others work I suppose. If others are downloading data will MS say "but...

Contrary to the fact that many people around the world believe that the UK isn't sunny, which is clearly nonsense. London is around the same temperature as Paris. From April/May to September it can be expected to be mild and the Gulf Stream tends to keep Britain warmer than many other countries...

Doesn't the current Windows11 NotePad feed data back to MS? It appeared to say that in an update sometime last year, or the year before I think it was. Just about the same time that Notepad++ needed to be online. Since then I have used GEANY for a text editor. Who can you trust? I have a...

Apparently many husbands are discovering that their wives are frequently in contact with other men. One of these is called Clive who appears to be a busy guy. Others are Gemini, ChatGPT with some CoPilot trying to get in on the action. These are very attentive and will say things like "that is...

Problem is that politicians have a short timespan. So they are uninterested in becoming involved in finding a solution to a long term issue. A typical example is Brexit. When that happened Cameron, the PM at the time resigned. He said that it was now going to be too much hard work completing the...