I have split my Database with tables now all in a _be file of type .accdb.
When I attempt to compile the front end into a .accde file for user distribution I get the following error:-
'Microsoft Access was unable to create the .accde, mde, or ade file'
'This error is usually associated with compiling a large database into an MDE file. Because of the method used to compile the database, a considerable number of TableID references are created for each table. The Access database engine can only create a maximum of 2048 open TableIDs at one time. Exporting a database as an MDE potentially can exceed this limit if the database has a large number of objects (table, macro, form, report, etc).
There is no accurate method to estimate the number of TableIDs the Access database engine uses during the process of compiling a database as an MDE. However, each VBA module and each form uses one TableID, as a result, if the database has 500 forms, and each form's HasModule property is set to Yes, as many as 1,000 TableIDs are used.'
My database has nothing like this number of tables or forms/reports. Is it possible that I can't have a .accdb back end and a .accde front end ?
Can anyone offer any advice please. I cannot password protect the front end because the encrypted data won't export to Word or Excel which I need to perform. Mail merges etc.