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JamesPower4
Jun 17, 2019Copper Contributor
Keeping Access files on a SharePoint site??
Hello: I work as a research scientist and I keep a substantial amount of data in Access databases. I use both a virtual machine and a laptop to work with those databases. Using the VM is helpful beca...
Juan Soto
Jun 18, 2019MVP
JamesPower4 Thanks for posting your question in the Access community. Yes, you can in theory store your Access database in SharePoint but I don't recommend it, it will be slow and require syncing, and honestly I don't think it's worthwhile.
Have you tried splitting the database using the database splitter? It would allow you to share just the data file on your network on both machines, for more information on this feature check out:
Let us know if that worked for you!
Juan