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broken or missing reference error message in form
Hello. We have an access db out on a shared drive that is giving this error
from a form our end-users use to enter data: Your Microsoft Office Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file '4TWDLN10.MDA'. When we look at the references in design view it gives this path for that reference C:\4TOPS\4TWDLN10.MDA On Google there was information indicating that this is and add-on... Can anyone tell me if this is a legitimate MS add-on? If I remove it the form seems to work fine. Thanks! -- MorningStarFan |
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broken or missing reference error message in form
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:50:02 -0800, "MorningStarFan"
wrote: Hello. We have an access db out on a shared drive that is giving this error from a form our end-users use to enter data: Your Microsoft Office Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file '4TWDLN10.MDA'. When we look at the references in design view it gives this path for that reference C:\4TOPS\4TWDLN10.MDA On Google there was information indicating that this is and add-on... Can anyone tell me if this is a legitimate MS add-on? If I remove it the form seems to work fine. Thanks! Any .MDA file is an Access Library file. Anyone with Access installed can create one, and can name it whatever they like - so I don't know any way to tell from the name whether the reference is to a MS-developed add-in or not. At some point in the development of your database this library file was referenced. That reference might or might not still be needed by some form or other; but if you remove the reference and all your forms and reports continue to work, I'd just write it off. The reference itself can't do any harm (though concievably the .mda file, if it were present, could). John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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broken or missing reference error message in form
Thank You! We ended up removing the reference and we haven't had any problems
reported on that db since. -- MorningStarFan "John Vinson" wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:50:02 -0800, "MorningStarFan" wrote: Hello. We have an access db out on a shared drive that is giving this error from a form our end-users use to enter data: Your Microsoft Office Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file '4TWDLN10.MDA'. When we look at the references in design view it gives this path for that reference C:\4TOPS\4TWDLN10.MDA On Google there was information indicating that this is and add-on... Can anyone tell me if this is a legitimate MS add-on? If I remove it the form seems to work fine. Thanks! Any .MDA file is an Access Library file. Anyone with Access installed can create one, and can name it whatever they like - so I don't know any way to tell from the name whether the reference is to a MS-developed add-in or not. At some point in the development of your database this library file was referenced. That reference might or might not still be needed by some form or other; but if you remove the reference and all your forms and reports continue to work, I'd just write it off. The reference itself can't do any harm (though concievably the .mda file, if it were present, could). John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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