Access 2000 image problems

[AdamW]

Here's my issue with Access 2000:



Where I work, a group of guys have Access linked through Autocad to view images (TIF files) through an image control (images are not stored in the database).

Now, I know Access 2000 is very old and outdated, and it's also a nightmare to work with, but until a new solution is put into place, we cannot change from this version, especially since Access 2003+ lacks support for TIF files.

Anyway, onto the issue. At first, only one person was having the issue of loading up the Access database (it goes into a form with the information based on what's in the autocad drawing), it would load fine, except it wouldn't display the image. All mapped drives, installation of software order, configurations, etc., were all the same on 4 other workstations, but he was the only one who had this issue. I've attempted reinstalling Access 2000, ensuring that the proper graphic filters were installed, and made sure that he had full access to the Shared Tools\Graphic Filters registry key as well, but no luck.

Yesterday, one of the other guys who was having issues with his Autocad (a completely separate issue), I reinstalled Autocad and now the same issue is happening to him, while previously he wasn't experiencing this problem of not being able to see images.

Several days of Googling the issue and I can't find anything even remotely close to this problem anywhere.

Upgrading Access or modifying the database is not an option.

What else can I try, or is there anything I'm missing? I don't believe it's a permissions issue as I'm a domain admin and experience the same issue on their PC's as well.

Thanks!

[rpeare]

Because you are so limited in what you can do I would try something a little out of the box:

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6637_102...files-to-jpeg/

This is a link discussing how to convert a tif to a .jpg. I'm not suggesting you change your entire operation to view .jpgs I'm just suggesting that when you try to view a .tif, you run this program (I haven't used it but you can batch commands which is always a plus) and it converts it to a .jpg. Then when you're done you can delete all the .jpg files in a specific directory.

[AdamW]

I don't think I would need to change the file format, since this is working on 3 out of 5 machines (was 4 out of 5 until yesterday). There has to be *something* that's preventing this from working correctly, and instead of trying to find a work around, I want to know what's causing this issue (if it's identifiable) to prevent/repair this in future cases. Thanks for the help though I may have to resort to the conversion if I can't find a solution soon :\

All of the machines are XP, if that helps/makes a difference.