Yeah way too late for that.

I tried that first up but I had closed the program that I used to transfer before I realised, so it was too late then.

Thanks though, I appreciate you trying to help.

As you said, only 12 hourse, I have the PC re-running now, should be done in the morning some time.

Goodnight all.

- Duritz, an idiot.

Next time you do this sort of thing, do it from within Access.
I take it you have the two machines networked in some way?
If you do it from Access then you can either use the "Export" option if you want it to send it to say, the laptop, or the "Import" function if you want to import it. This way you will have the advantage of not loosing the Db.
Hope it helps.

I've used a program for some years now & have to say it's the single most important bit of software I've ever purchased as it has saved me on many, many occasions from similar incidents as the one you describe, once retriving a ten year old database worth thousands of $$$ alone in time spent on keeping it up-to-date.

The program I refer to is Go Back which literally does that as it goes back in time and restores the computer as it was 10mins ago, an hour ago, start of day, close down, 12 hours ago 24 hours ago etc.

Get it & it will be your safeguard for the future.

Menu trick:
Open My Computer and then access the Properties for your main hard drive. Select the Tools tab and options for Error-checking and Defragmentation will be listed. By making a slight change to the Registry you can add a third option: the Windows XP Back-up utility. Open the Registry Editor and locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ MyComputer. Right-click the My Computer key, click New -> Key and call it backuppath. In the pane opposite, right-click the Default value, choose Modify and give it a value of %SystemRoot%\system32\ntbackup. exe. Then open the Properties of your hard drive and select the Tools tab to see the new option.

You should now have created your own 'Back-up" utility.

I run Windows 2000 and already have that there...nerver use it but might check it out