Win2000 does not recognizing shortcut paths

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From: Jan Il (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:03:44 -0500

Hi all! Win 2K, Access 2002 XP

I am new to your newsgroup, as I have just recently installed Win2000 on a
new hard drive on my machine along with WinME on the old hard drive. Right
now I'm dual booting until I have a chance to get all the stuff setup and
transferred over from ME to W2k.

One of the problems that I have encountered at the immediate moment, is that
when I have transferred my data files to the new W2K hard drive, put the in
the proper path folders, and then created a new shortcut to an existing
database on the new hard drive, I am getting the following error message:

Cannot find the file ""C:\Documents and Settings\jan\My
Documents\Access\Jan's Checking Registry\Jan's Checking.mdb"

The path in the shortcut is as follows:

"C:\Documents and Settings\jan\My Documents\Access\Jan's Checking
Registry\Jan's Checking.mdb"....which is the correct location of the file. I
even did a manual Find Target, and right clicked the file and did a Create
Shortcut, and it still gives me this error. But, it goes on to open the
file ok.

Although it opens the file, I tarry to ignore the problem, as I am not sure
at what point I may wind up with a corrupted file. While I have everything
backed up twice, I don't like having such situations going on.

I would truly appreciate any suggestions, as I am not sure if this is a W2K
related issue, or one for the Access ng, although, it does not involve any
database activities.

Jan :)
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