.adp extension shared between Microsoft Access and Attachmate Infoconnect

[Michael Rhoden]

I have a user's PC that is using Windows 98. We have
installed Infoconnect Attachmate Millennium 1 and
Microsoft Office XP.

When an icon is made for Mapper (Infoconnect) is uses
the .adp extension. Of course, Access uses that extension
also. So when the icon is opened, instead of Infoconnect,
Access opens.

This is a problem we have had before but no one here can
remember what the fix is.

Can someone tell me how to adjust the Infoconnect Icon's
path so it will open Mapper and not Access?

Thanks,
Michael Rhoden
Huntsville, Alabama

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I have a user's PC that is using Windows 98. We have
installed Infoconnect Attachmate Millennium 1 and
Microsoft Office XP.

When an icon is made for Mapper (Infoconnect) is uses
the .adp extension. Of course, Access uses that extension
also. So when the icon is opened, instead of Infoconnect,
Access opens.

This is a problem we have had before but no one here can
remember what the fix is.

Can someone tell me how to adjust the Infoconnect Icon's
path so it will open Mapper and not Access?

Thanks,
Michael Rhoden
Huntsville, Alabama

I don't know anything about Infoconnect or Mapper, so the following
advice is only a rough outline of what must be done.

Only one of the two applications can be associated with the .adp
extension at a time. If you want to keep the .adp file association with
Access, you'll have to change the properties of any shortcut that
currently points to an Infoconnect file (whatever that is) so that it
now points to the Mapper or Infoconnect application itself rather than
the file, and gives the specific file path to the data file as an
argument on the command line -- assuming the application supports such
an argument.

If it were the Access file association you wanted to give up, you would
use a command line like this for your shortcuts:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\...\My
Documents\MyProject.adp"

Note that the above may have been wrapped by the newsreader, but was
entered on one line.

One may hope that Infoconnect supports a similar command-line argument.