TIA - All my files were moved to a new server - applications stopped working because of pathing prob

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So all my files and apps were in server A ... I.T.. moved them to
server B and now my applications do not work because the path is
looking for server A ... How do I make the applications work again
without manually re-linking the tables in the network ?

in the future, how could i avoid this problem ?

I do not use SQL, I develop via design view - Thanks ...
 
As far as I know you will have to relink. There is no other solution.

Depending on how IT did the move, you might be able to use UNC (Universal
Naming Convention) path names but it is probable that even that will break if
IT moves files from server to server. In my office, the move is possible, but
since IT maps certain directories on the server to specific "drives" during
login, they could just change the physical location of files and map the new
location to the old reference.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
 
Many Thanks John ... I'll talk to one of our network admin and see if
they could try this (mapping ...) ...

In the future, when I build another MS Access database, is there
anything I can do when I'm developing the db that would avoid this
problem (the db getting disabled when files and apps are moved from
one server to another) ? Thanks in advance, again John ...

jim
 
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