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    bnnook is offline Novice
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    Saving OLE Linked Objects with Relative Path

    We want to put an access 97 DB on a DVD.

    In a table OLE column, we have several hundred photos that are linked, not embedded.



    The problem is, the path to these files are absolute, eg, G:\msaccess\photos\img02.jpg

    Is there anyway to make the path relative like: photos\img04.jpg ?

    That way, if the customer has a dvd player that used a different drive letter than we did, the links will still work?

    I tried entering the links as a relative path photos\img05.jpg but access converts them to absolute paths G:\msaccess\photos\img05.jpg.

    It's for an archaeology project.

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    bnnook is offline Novice
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    Moving to Access 2003 solved all our woes.

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