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I have a table with a selection of free text and look up fields. The lookups are from other tables. I have made a form from this table and all is working OK except that I missed out a field when I made the original table. I have gone back into the table and added a new look up field from my...

Hi - Well changing the server permissions has made no difference. Whenever someone accesses the BE of the DB a locking file is generated blocking everyone else from using it. This is getting quite serious now as input is slowed to one user at a time. Have even tried setting the default file...

I presume you mean granting full server permissions for this folder. I have just checked and, although the folder had full permissions for everyone not everything in it did - strange. I have just inherited the folder permission across all of the content and subfolders so I'll monitor it and see...

Thanks for the reply. I have already checked this and all of the local machiens are set up with: Default Open Mode - Shared Defauly Record Locking - Edited record and Open Databases by Using Record Level Locking is checked. Unfortunately some of the PC's are still generating a BE locking file...

I have a split DB with the BE on a server and the FE on each individual client machine. I understand that a locking file will be created when the FE is opened but I have a couple of machines that are craeting a BE locking file which means of course that no-one else can use the DB. As soon as the...

Thanks very much for the info. I'll try posting the problem there as well. Thanks again

Thanks for the replies guys. I am not getting any error messages in fact nothing at all happens. I have checked the paths and made sure that, on all of the local machines, the FE is stored in the same folder with the same path (I have created a folder in the shared documents folder). The...

Hi I am new to this forum so forgive me if I do not follow the rules. I have downloaded and installed Bob Larson prog for auto updating the front end of my database. On my computer all works fine but when I copy the FE to other computers it simply opens even when I change the version numbers. In...