ACCESS Help

[Mindi]

Having problems saving tables in Access. Keeps telling me I don't have
enough disk space, but it's a new disk.
Help ASAP, please!?!

 

[Rocky]

more info please. just because it's new doesn't really
mean much.
What kind of disk? hard? floppy? CD? flash?
How big is the disk? in kbs
how big is the table? in kbs
what else is on the disk besides your tables?
When did this problem start occuring?

Rocky Rhodes

 

[Mindi]

Standard floppy disk, IBM formatted, nothing else on the disk.
don't know the numbers, but table is not big at all, just an assignment that
the kids are doing out of a book.
Some kids can save it fine, some can't. And I have no experience with
ACCESS at all, and not a lot of money to go out and buy all of the books to
tell me about it. Thanks for ANY info.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You can't save just a table from a database: you have to copy the entire
MDB. If yours is too large to copy, try compacting it first (under Tools |
Database Utilities on the menu bar). If it's still too large to fit on a
floppy, consider zipping it.

 

[Mindi]

Trying to save the entire database...but when we get to the point to save it,
it gives me the error message and then won't give me the option to save it
again, therefore we are losing the whole thing. These dbs are not that
large...they are lessons out of a book, very simple ones. It won't let me
compact it at that point that I get the message. Like I said, some
computers/disks are working fine, and some are giving me the message there is
not enough space on the disks. Why the variance? When compacting, do you
have to continually do it while it is open? Or once you compact it, it will
continue to compact it? Like I said, I have NO experience with Access!
THANK YOU!!