Urgent Help needed :Transferring MA questionnaire

[Jan]

This has been compiled on an Access 2000 home pc and we
wnat to transfer it to my laptop with XP Access 2003.
Unfortunately it ended up with an 'mde' tag in the
process. It is only the database its self and contains no
queries or reports.
A further problem is that in trying to build the database
again on my laptop, in Access 2003, it will not allow it
to be saved in 'save as' or in 'save' : it keeps coming up
with "indexes must have names". What does this mean?
Please HELP !! I must be able to write up my answers
during the next week!

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Jan,

Normally all that is required is to copy the original database (the mdb
file) to the new machine. Access 2003 can use Access 2000 files without
the least difficulty.

If you have destroyed the original mdb file and only have the mde left,
the thing to do is

1) copy the mde file to the new computer.
2) Launch Access 2003 and create and save a new blank database.
3) Use File|Get External Data|Import to import the data from the mde
file to the blank database.