Can access delete intself?

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I'm distributing an access app to remote users. At the end of a project I
would like to find an way they can easily remove the .mde file from their
computers. Is there a way to do this from within my app?

Thanks,
Ken
 
No. As far as I know, there is no file that can delete itself. You can
delete everything except the form calling the code.
 
KRR said:
I'm distributing an access app to remote users. At the end of a project I
would like to find an way they can easily remove the .mde file from their
computers. Is there a way to do this from within my app?

Thanks,
Ken
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As Arvin correctly points out, a file can't delete itself. However, you
certainly could just write a simple batch file to do this.

For calling the batch from the file to be deleted could be doable but
not as robust as I'd like it to be. You need it to be done
asynchronously, so that's a Shell command then immediately quitting and
the batch file can sleep for a certain period before proceeding with
deleting the file which by then should already had quit and thus is free
for deletion.
 
Are you distributing an "install" package? (in other words, how are you
"distributing an access app"?)

If so, could you distribute an "uninstall" package?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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Jeff Boyce said:
Are you distributing an "install" package? (in other words, how are you
"distributing an access app"?)
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Actually those usually come with an uninstall menu item anyhow.

Tony
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