ACC2000: An MDE File That References Another MDE File Cannot Run Code After Both Are Moved to Another Folder

When you try to run an event procedure in an Access MDE file that references a function in another Access MDE file, you may receive the following error message:

After creating the MDE files, you moved them to another folder.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To temporarily work around this problem, move the MDE files back to the original location or create new MDE files in the new folder.

Office 2000 SR-1 only enables the MDE to resolve references the same way an Access database (MDB) does. This means it will search for the new location of the reference in specific folders. If the referenced file is in a folder that is not searched, the reference remains broken. To resolve this, you can either move the file to a folder that will be searched, or you can use the RefLibPaths key to include additional paths where Microsoft Access can search for broken references.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.