Re: Access Runtime - Reinstall Compiled Project with Data

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Why not create a new installation on the new computer from your install
floppies, then just overcopy the backend mdb with the customer's backend file
containing the data?

Chris

<melickas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1133887776.069387.33710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am starting over explaining a problem we have - please disregard
> previous posts as they are misleading.
>
> We designed a VBA Application using Office 97 Developer Tools. We
> distributed this as an ACCESS RUNTIME application. The database was
> split into MDE & MDB, we ran the ODE Setup Wizard to create
> installation floppies. The customer added data to the application.
>
> If relavant, our customer has a new computer running XP Pro.
>
> On the new computer, how do we reinstall the application we created (we
> have the original floppies) and import their data?
>
> Tools we have:
>
> 1. Office Developer 97 ODE Tools
> 2. Office Developer XP ODE Tools
> 3. We have the original MDB we created, before it was split and run
> through the 97 Setup Wizard.
> 4. We have there current backend MDB with the data in the tables.
>
> Thank you!
>


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