Re: What is a Library mde/mdb?

Reading you comments, in a multi user environment, or even a single user, I
wonder what is wrong with simply placing a copy in the same location as the
front-end. Sure, if you have multiple applications installed that use it you
have multiple copies on a workstation, but who cares. I have done this for
years and never have a problem with a broken reference. Access always looks
in the current location and always resolves the reference.

Jeff

"David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Tom van Stiphout" <no.spam.tom7744@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:13:26 GMT, Wayne Gillespie
>>> <bestfit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> c:\program files\common files\<your company name> Shared
>>> would be a better choice than most.
>>
>> Perhaps on your development computer, but NOT on the deployed
>> user's computer. If you have multiple front-end applications using
>> a library database, and you update the library, you probably also
>> need to update the front end, and you absolutely must update the
>> front-end if you use a compiled Mde.
>>
>> You don't want to update one application with its library, and
>> break another application.
>
> Not only that, but putting it in a subfolder of the %PROGRAMS%
> folder means that users have to run with administrative logons, or
> that special permissions have to be set on the folder to allow
> regular users to write to it. This is not necessarily an issue for
> installation, but if you're pushing out regular upgrades
> transparently, it will fail for non-administrative users.
>
> In my opinion, it's a bad practice to place Access apps in the
> %PROGRAMS% folder hierarchy.
>
> --
> David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
> usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/


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