Re: how do you burn cd of old database

Thank you for the help John. I was finally able to copy the word docs to the
flash drive. Didn't seem to work to copy them to CD... I still can't figure
our how to copy the database. The only way I can find it is to go to my
recent documents in Access and open it from there. I can't find it anywhere
else, so it's not possible to drag and drop or even to copy and paste. I
tried the "properties" and it was not hidden
and the "Hide extensions for known file types" was already unchecked. I
just don't know what to do next. Any more ideas? I may be able to copy the
data with copy and paste but I need to copy the format as well. Thanks
again.
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GrannyJulesMN


"John Nurick" wrote:

Access doesn't "Save As" an mdb file. If you want to put an Access
database on to a flash drive you close Access and go to My Computer or
Windows Explorer. Find the mdb file's icon and drag (or copy and paste)
it onto the drive's icon.

With a CD drive in Windows XP it's the same, except that you next have
to tell Windows to write the file to the CD.

You mentioned that the file was not found when you did a search. That
could be explained by the file's having been hidden. To cover that
possibility, right-click on the file's icon and select Properties. On
the General tab of the Properties dialog, make sure that "Hidden" is not
checked.

If you can't find the file's icon, open My Computer. Go to the Tools
menu, select Folder Options... and click on the View tab. Under Advanced
Settings, select "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and uncheck "Hide
extensions for known file types".

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:35:03 -0800, GrannyJules
<GrannyJules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I got a flash drive and tried to "Save As" like the computer man told me, and
drag and drop it on the flash drive, but then I noticed that it somehow is
now an HTML file and I surely don't want to use it in a web site! How can I
change the file type back to mdb? I am not able to "save as" any other type
and when I try to change it to mdb, it automatically adds html after the mdb.
There doesn't seem to be any way to save it in its present form. Can you
help? I am not a computer tech....I don't know how to tell if it has been
hidden. Please explain as if I know nothing about computers....talk to me
like a teacher explaining to a student. I am a computer user, not a computer
tech. :) Thanks for your help!

--
John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]

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