This is so annoying. Today in my "Advanced" Office class, we started doing Access 2000. Our instructor wanted us to open a database that was located on a shared network drive that only faculty and staff can write to; students can only read.

Well I was off in my own little world and then he started walking around the room asking if anyone was having trouble. Apparantly (first problem)- everyone was getting a "This file is a read-only file" message when they opened it and he didn't understand what the problem was....that they were students and naturally, with that drive, they can only read the files - According to him though, "It must be something wrong with the server."

Second problem. When he told people to copy this file to the desktop (when all of the students have personal space on a file server that they could have saved it on, but that's another post), they would open it and all was fine....until he discovered that this file was missing all of the tables and whatnot that should have been there....."There must be something wrong with the server that's causing this problem."

Well, to make a long story short, he copied the file HE was using to the shared student read-only drive, and everyone tried to get it, of course they got the same message and all, so I just copied it to my personal space. I noticed when it copied though, that it was about 8k larger than the file we originally were trying to use. I opened up the file and everything was there. I raised my hand, got him to come back there, told him that they needed to copy it to their personal network drive and open it from there, his reply to me was "No, there's something wrong with the server and that's what is causing this problem."

The story could go on a little further, but that's enough for now. It just annoys me so much that he has all of these Microsoft certs listed after his name and everything, but that's just plain annoying to me.

I know, this probably doesn't make much sense, but I'm low on sleep now and trying to get a program to work that's due Friday amidst other school work and all...just needed a break. I'm sure that there will be more stories coming from this class soon...