Find and replace on all forms, Not enough Memory

[Movian]

Hey,

so I find the need to change the Open_form event on all forms in the system from Private to Public (at least I need to do this for 75% of forms)

so rather than go through each of our forms (a couple hundred) I thought I could just do a nice find and replace

Find
Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Replace with
Public Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)

Set to entire project and then replace all.


The problem is access appears to start this process then complains it doesn't have enough memory to complete the task and crashes. (Access 2010)

I don't believe the DB is corrupted and it is entirely possible that as a 32 bit application it doesn't have enough memory for this...

I tried setting the large address aware flag for the executable this removed the warning message but access still crashed at the same point.....

Any suggestions for this? Perhaps I could export all the forms as text and then do some kind of batch process then import them all?

Anyone else run into this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[Movian]

So,

found a process to sort this out,

1) Export all forms to text files
2) Use Notepad++ to find and replace text in all text files
3) Delete all forms
4) Import all forms from text files

Wrote some subs for this if others needs this in future,

One issue is that the delete forms sub needs to be run several times as it runs into an unknown error (Presuming that the deleting of the forms is causing an array problem in the for next loop) however running several times until all forms deleted does work.

Option Compare DatabaseOption Explicit


Sub ExportAllFormsToText()
Dim MyForm As Object
Dim Location As String
Dim FileExtension As String


Location = "D:\Work\SonoSoft\Form Text Export\"
FileExtension = ".txt"


For Each MyForm In CurrentProject.AllForms
    Application.SaveAsText acForm, MyForm.Name, Location & MyForm.Name & FileExtension
Next
MsgBox "Complete"
End Sub


Sub DeleteAllForms()
If MsgBox("Are you sure you want to delete all forms?", vbYesNo) = vbNo Then
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim MyForm As Object
Dim varReturn As Variant
For Each MyForm In CurrentProject.AllForms
    varReturn = SysCmd(acSysCmdSetStatus, MyForm.Name)
    DoCmd.DeleteObject acForm, MyForm.Name
    DoEvents
Next


MsgBox "Complete"
End Sub


Sub ImportAllFormsFromText()
If MsgBox("Are you sure you wish to import all form text files?", vbYesNo) = vbNo Then
    Exit Sub
End If
Dim Location As String
Dim FileExtension As String
Dim myfile As String
Dim varReturn As Variant


Location = "D:\Work\SonoSoft\Form Text Export\"
FileExtension = ".txt"


myfile = Dir(Location & "\" & FileExtension)


Do While myfile <> ""
    varReturn = SysCmd(acSysCmdSetStatus, myfile)
    Application.LoadFromText acForm, left(myfile, Len(myfile) - 4), Location & "\" & myfile
    myfile = Dir
    DoEvents
Loop
MsgBox "Complete"
End Sub