Re: NT locking me out of certain files

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From: Ian Wilson
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <D+5JHGAksSj0EwSh@rob-and-vics.demon.co.uk>, The News Reader
<newsreader@rob-and-vics.demon.co.uk> writes
>database that was created by the Access DB wizard and tailored by me.
>Instead of opening Access followed by the DB, I get the message "Access
>to the specified device, path or file is denied".  If I try and open the

I had the same problem with Adobe Illustrator not wanting to open .ai or
.eps files from Explorer. Same error message.

The problem turned out to be a space in the path to the data file or
application.

In the Illustrator example, I changed the file association command for
OPEN so that it was enclosed in quotes and all seems fine now.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Ian Wilson - ian@newitts.com

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From: Ian Wilson <ian@newitts.com>
Subject: Re: NT locking me out of certain files
Date: 1997/12/10
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