"Save As" failing to create new database objects in Access 2016

[freeradical]

So, I create a new object in Microsoft Access 2016, a query. All is good.

Now, I try to "Save As" using that query as a template on which to base another query. I get a dialog box asking me what I want to save the new object as, but when I hit "OK", I do not get a new object appearing in the navigator pane.

Does anyone have any ideas? This process works fine when on a pure Windows machine, but I'm doing this in a virtual machine on my MBP.

My setup:

VMware Fusion 10

Windows 10

[rjmacs]

Hrm. It's not saving templates somewhere else by default, is it?

[freeradical]

There is no location for user created templates in Access.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Are you using the Classic Menus? Is this a template that could be saved in an earlier format like 2007? Have you added a Trusted location in the Trust Center in Access Options?

After poking through the Access support pages, my first guess is a mismatch between the user credentials between when you installed Office/Access and your current user account in Fusion.

[martin]

APFS file system issue?

[freeradical]

martin wrote:
APFS file system issue?

I'm running Sierra, but that shouldn't matter anyhow since Access "sees" a Windows filesystem.

[freeradical]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Are you using the Classic Menus? Is this a template that could be saved in an earlier format like 2007? Have you added a Trusted location in the Trust Center in Access Options?

After poking through the Access support pages, my first guess is a mismatch between the user credentials between when you installed Office/Access and your current user account in Fusion.

I shouldn't have used the word "template" since that's not what I'm really trying to do. I'm simply trying to use a query that I've created as the basis for another modified version of that query.

Anyhow, you gave me some things to maybe look at.

I was talking to a Windows IT guy, and he said that what I was trying to do is not possible in a virtual environment, and that perhaps what I'm trying to do might be possible under Boot Camp. This makes no sense to me at all.

[mikebw]

freeradical wrote:
I was talking to a Windows IT guy, and he said that what I was trying to do is not possible in a virtual environment, and that perhaps what I'm trying to do might be possible under Boot Camp. This makes no sense to me at all.

I don't use Access, but some things just don't work in a virtual environment. Accessibility testing with the JAWS screen reader for example, is one reason why I occasionally need to use a physical PC.