Moving a newly designed database table and for to another system

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JWS - 28 Jun 2006 19:48 GMT

I have recently designe a new database table and form on my Windows XP system
using Access 2003. I would like to move these objects to another similar
system and use them there. I attempted simply to "copy" the database to a CD
and open it on the other system but was given an error that stated the copy
was read only.

Your help would be appreciated.

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JP - 28 Jun 2006 22:37 GMT

CDs are read-only media as far as Access, VB, C, etc. are concerned.
Therefore, the database on the CD is considered read-only (as is any file on
the CD).

When a file is copied from a CD to a computer hard drive, it is marked as
read-only on the computer (because it came from a read-only media).

To correct that, go to Windows Explorer, right click on the mdb, select
Properties, and uncheck the read-only attribute. Remember, you can only do
this to the copy of the file on the hard-drive, you can't do it to the copy
of the file on the CD.

>I have recently designe a new database table and form on my Windows XP
>system
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> Your help would be appreciated.

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