Recent content by PamelaJoy

Thank you for your reply, David! Yes, the new hard drive is only on my/local machine. The location of the BE file, workgroup and front end have not changed (the front end was never on my machine). The path of the shortcut is the same - it just doesn't work on the new hard drive (but continues...

Our database is split, and my shortcut has been working just fine for years (going through the program to the .mde and on through the workgroup). But since installing a new hard drive this weekend, the shortcut is broken. The names of all of the files and the drives and etc. are identical to...

I figured that's what you meant! :) Thanks for the input, Gemma. Pam

I like that idea best of all, Banana. The GM did not want to have to log in every morning, (let alone after a period of being idle during the day) so that option wasn't an easy sell. And he has recently arranged for the ability to access his computer remotely from home, so now he leaves his...

I just want to be smart - our db holds all of our proprietary recipes, some of which are patented. You just never know 'what evil lurks in the hearts of men' these days, unfortunately. But who would have thought I'd develop the db at home using Windows XP Professional, only to take it to the...

Here are the two screens when you right click on the folder's properties, followed by the screen that I would use to change the folder properties - the 'Use simple file sharing (Recommended)' line would be just below where my screen ends. Thanks in advance for ideas, advice, direction, etc. Pam

:(I think I am going to cry . . . I have a nice, big, NTFS file location set up, ready to go, only to discover we run on Windows XP HOME EDITION (which must have come with the Dell computers the company purchased years ago) so I still can't utilize Permissions. The Security tab is not...

Sounds like a plan - thanks so much!!

Thanks. I'm still bummed though! I think I'll look into NTFS more, thinking that maybe I can create a new logical drive in a separate partition. That way I can be the boss, and put the db there but with a different (NTFS) file system. And after all the design, development, and testing - I...

I am so frustrated. I just spent my whole weekend learning about then diagramming what I needed to do to use Microsoft Permissions . . . only to come in this morning and discover our files at work, unlike ours at home, are formatted in a FAT file system rather than NTFS so it appears there is...

I'll read up on that method now - it sure beats the hassles I've had with the ULS (locked myself out more than once and had to start over - NOT WORTH IT!) and having to add passwords, travel through the right workgroup, etc. Yes - all I'm concerned about is keeping everyone EXCEPT the GM and I...

Our db is ready for use, replacing the former dBase system. There are only two of us in the office - I am the db developer and the GM will use it to update records and print reports. This is easily accomplished from the Switchboard (so he doesn't ever need to see anything else). The db...

You solved the calculation problem! :) Hallelujah!!!!!! I don't think I can say 'thank you' enough! I really appreciate your sticking with me, especially after I told you that parent.text90+totalunitcost did NOT work for me! NOW (insert an embarrassed face here) I understand/see why it did not...

I hope I haven't eliminated anything you need to see to be able to help . . . but I am so new at this 'stripped down version zip file' thing! Here's hoping . . . and thank you again.

Thanks, Ray. But alas, no - that didn't work either. I don't know if this helps pinpoint my problem any better, but I get '#Error' for the calculation when the subreport is viewed from the open Main Report, and '#Name?' when it is viewed on the open subreport.