For some reason, how I set up the new PC, made the user clayt instead of clayton, so cross links are failing. I am now copying \Users\clay to \Users\clayton to solve this problem. Thoes not solve it. All the pages that I can find either rely on running as administrator which seems not to work with I run command as administrator or basically warn you that it may not work and will leave you thoroughly screwed. GeekSquad next, I guess.
They barely (if at all) understood why this path mattered. (If Windows was written by a sane person, it would allow relative links between Office applications: ./MassMurderIntermediary.xlsx.
But I found myself wondering: does Windows have anything like Unix symbolic links? Yes, it does. In \Users, running command shell as Administrator: mklink /d clayton clayt. Problem solved. Not quite. Some permissions issue allows saves through that link for Excel, but not Access.
Would a hard link be a better choice? I cannot articulate why, but it is a guess. Copied everything to symbolic link. Everything works.
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