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Re: NT locking me out of certain files

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From: The News Reader
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <ZCxcYBAbWlj0Ewi6@newitts.com>, Ian Wilson <ian@newitts.com>
writes
>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.
>
Sadly no.  I had encountered the exact problem that you describe a while
ago, and fixed it by replacing spaces in the paths with underscores and
actually renaming files and directories.  Now the address book DB that I
mentioned has the full path d:\Home_Stuff\Address_Book.mdb, but has
started to give the error message again.
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From: The News Reader <newsreader@rob-and-vics.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: NT locking me out of certain files
Date: 1997/12/10
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