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[Closed] MS Access help - sharing a database

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I work with a colleague and we both need read/write access to a database on a normal server. We both have read/write access to the file and folder but cannot work at the same time/save changes.

Am i doing something wrong or is this just a limitation we have to work with? If so are there any collaborative sites like google docs where i could put the database so we could work on it at the same time??


 
Posted : 03/10/2014 10:46 am
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It's years since I worked with Access but when I did something that needed multi user input/output I had two databases, one for the front end doing the forms, the other containing the data. That's all I remember so may not be any help at all!


 
Posted : 03/10/2014 12:35 pm
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Go to Tools & click 'Access Database'. This will guide you through splitting the DB into 2 files. Backend for the data & a front end for the queries, forms etc.

Backup your original first.


 
Posted : 03/10/2014 12:40 pm
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Check your version of Access is set up for shared rather than exclusive use in options (under the file tab somewhere).

Have a look or google for that and the office website will have the exact details.


 
Posted : 03/10/2014 12:42 pm
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AndyB is correct. Don't split your database for only 2users


 
Posted : 03/10/2014 12:46 pm

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