I forgot to tell you that I have tried to update my mde file with elevated
administrator rights, but it won’t work anyway.
I have tried this with Packet Builder (an installer program) that always has
worked pretty well in XP.
Here is a link for a post I have made in it’s forum
http://www.gdgsoft.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=3. You can see the answer
they gave me.
"rac" wrote:
Quote:
> Jose,
> I am encountering a similar issue.
>
> I have been using a MS Access 2000 database for quite some time. I have a
> user who purchased a new computer with Windows Vista (I needed to install
> Vista Business to accommodate our network). The OS has been SP'd to SP1.
>
> Very simply, I created a directory in Program Files and placed a front-end
> MS Access database in it and a back-end database into a subfolder; both are
> ..mdb versus .mde. The user has been using this database for evaluation and
> testing. In the meantime, I have been updating the database application set
> on my WinXP/Access 2000 computer. To deploy the updated database app, I
> simply copied the updated database set to replace the existing set on the
> user's machine. When the database was opened on the user's machine, the
> data displayed was that of the OLD database, not the upgraded database.
> Sanity check... "user, watch me do this" Open db app on my computer -- all
> as it should be. Copy files to network share and copy them to user's
> machine from the share. Open the app on user's machine -- OLD data.
>
> I renamed the directory in the Program Files directory, manually created the
> directory with the appropriate name along with the subdirectory, and copied
> the database files into the respective directories. Now, with the exact
> same update files as before, the database displays the NEW data. Further,
> if I remove the new test directory and rename the original back to the
> particular name, the database now opens with the NEW data.
>
> I do see that no one has responded to your postings, at least into the
> forum. I have experienced this before with complex, serious MS Access
> issues. I hope you get a chance to see this follow up to your posting over
> two months ago. If you have any thoughts or resolution, I would like very
> much to hear from you.
>
> rac
> "José António Silva" <JosAntnioSilva@xxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:4A8C58D9-0AD4-4EBF-892C-D17249B89D33@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Hello,
> > I usually deploy a package composed, among others, by a mde file (Compiled
> > Access File). The installation process is done with a msi file. So far so
> > good! However, sometimes, I need to update my program several times a day
> > and, to be simpler, I deploy to clients an exe file that just replace the
> > mde
> > file. This can break some windows installation rules, but that’s enough!
> > Now, I’m doing this in four computers with Vista. Two of them are ok. In
> > the
> > other two, my exe file apparently replaces the mde, but when the final
> > user
> > run’s it, he didn’t get the last version that goes inside the exe file. He
> > gets the same previous version.
> > I have given full control permissions to the folder c:\program files\my
> > program. I suspect from Windows Resource Protection, but I’m not sure and
> > I
> > don’t know what to do or what to search for.
> >
> > José António Siva
> >
>
>