Attaching a 2003 Access data base to an email for use with Office

I was using Win XP with Office 2003 and have just installed Windows 7 and
Windows Live Mail with Office 2007. I have two other sites which also are
using Office 2003 and heretofore, we have had no problems emailing data bases
back and forth. But now, Windows Live Mail won't permit our exchanging .mdb
files as we have in the past. So, I was told that if we change the .mdb to
..txt we could email and get by Windows Live validation. That does get by the
validation, but I am having the problem of changing the .txt data base to
..mdb and getting it to open in Access. Any suggestions and help would be
greatly appreciated.
Tomc

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:28:02 -0700, TomC
wrote:

I was using Win XP with Office 2003 and have just installed Windows 7 and
Windows Live Mail with Office 2007. I have two other sites which also are
using Office 2003 and heretofore, we have had no problems emailing data bases
back and forth. But now, Windows Live Mail won't permit our exchanging .mdb
files as we have in the past. So, I was told that if we change the .mdb to
.txt we could email and get by Windows Live validation. That does get by the
validation, but I am having the problem of changing the .txt data base to
.mdb and getting it to open in Access. Any suggestions and help would be
greatly appreciated.
Tomc

Right mouseclick the .mdb file in Windows Explorer and choose Send To....
Compressed (zipped) folder. This will create a .zip file that you can attach -
not only is it much smaller and therefore faster, but it will get by the
security.
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Thank you Steve, Gina and John for your responses. John, I did do what you
suggested and it does get by the email part but Windows Security does not let
me do anything with the file once it is in Windows 7. I will try Gina's
suggestion. I hope that is the solution to my problem. Thanks again for you
time. Tomc

"John W. Vinson" wrote:

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:28:02 -0700, TomC
wrote:

I was using Win XP with Office 2003 and have just installed Windows 7 and
Windows Live Mail with Office 2007. I have two other sites which also are
using Office 2003 and heretofore, we have had no problems emailing data bases
back and forth. But now, Windows Live Mail won't permit our exchanging .mdb
files as we have in the past. So, I was told that if we change the .mdb to
.txt we could email and get by Windows Live validation. That does get by the
validation, but I am having the problem of changing the .txt data base to
.mdb and getting it to open in Access. Any suggestions and help would be
greatly appreciated.
Tomc

Right mouseclick the .mdb file in Windows Explorer and choose Send To....
Compressed (zipped) folder. This will create a .zip file that you can attach -
not only is it much smaller and therefore faster, but it will get by the
security.
--

John W. Vinson [MVP]
.

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:33:17 -0400, "John... Visio MVP"
wrote:

Sorry stevie, but in your finite wisdom, You are AGAIN wrong. The desktop is
a folder c:\user\userid\desktop


And even that is Windows version dependent.
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"TomC" kirjoitti
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I was using Win XP with Office 2003 and have just installed Windows 7 and
Windows Live Mail with Office 2007. I have two other sites which also are
using Office 2003 and heretofore, we have had no problems emailing data
bases
back and forth. But now, Windows Live Mail won't permit our exchanging
.mdb
files as we have in the past. So, I was told that if we change the .mdb to
.txt we could email and get by Windows Live validation. That does get by
the
validation, but I am having the problem of changing the .txt data base to
.mdb and getting it to open in Access. Any suggestions and help would be
greatly appreciated.
Tomc

TomC,
Have you tried making a "*.ZIP" file from your database file. Then attaching
that to the email message?

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"TomC" kirjoitti
...
I was using Win XP with Office 2003 and have just installed Windows 7 and
Windows Live Mail with Office 2007. I have two other sites which also are
using Office 2003 and heretofore, we have had no problems emailing data
bases
back and forth. But now, Windows Live Mail won't permit our exchanging
.mdb
files as we have in the past. So, I was told that if we change the .mdb to
.txt we could email and get by Windows Live validation. That does get by
the
validation, but I am having the problem of changing the .txt data base to
.mdb and getting it to open in Access. Any suggestions and help would be
greatly appreciated.
Tomc