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Unfortunately Dropbox just does not work for sharing an Access database between users. <br />
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Also there is no way to guarantee that only one person will be editing the database at a time.<br />
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See if this helps: &nbsp;<a href="http://hitechcoach.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33:remote-access-for-an-access-application&catid=52:remote-access" rel="ugc">Remote access for an Access Application </a>
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Unfortunately Dropbox just does not work for sharing an Access database between users.

Also there is no way to guarantee that only one person will be editing the database at a time.

See if this helps:  Remote access for an Access Application [http://hitechcoach.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33:remote-access-for-an-access-application&catid=52:remote-access]

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Thanks for your help. I'll have to keep the database on a LAN and disable shared cloud backups
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Thanks for your help. I'll have to keep the database on a LAN and disable shared cloud backups

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Hello,<br />
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I have a split MS Access 2007 database with two front end files (for different users) which both link to the tables in one backend database file.<br />
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The backend database file is shared on Dropbox.<br />
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Forgive me but this is quite a general question as I don't know where to begin the diagnostic. <br />
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Sometimes I am finding that MS Access creates an alternate file version of the backend database tables, appending 'conflicted copy' to the newly created filename.<br />
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The two users are never entering data at the same time, so I'm not sure what is triggering this conflict. Could this be a dropbox sharing sync problem or something within MS Access that I'm missing?
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Hello,

I have a split MS Access 2007 database with two front end files (for different users) which both link to the tables in one backend database file.

The backend database file is shared on Dropbox.

Forgive me but this is quite a general question as I don't know where to begin the diagnostic. 

Sometimes I am finding that MS Access creates an alternate file version of the backend database tables, appending 'conflicted copy' to the newly created filename.

The two users are never entering data at the same time, so I'm not sure what is triggering this conflict. Could this be a dropbox sharing sync problem or something within MS Access that I'm missing?

MS Access Conflicted Copy

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.