I may not understand correctly what you are stating so please bear with me. The database I am transferring isn't empty. It has lots of information across the tables.

I am upgrading the application which requires an uninstall of the old app to install the new app. I wouldn't uninstall the old until I was certain the new could recieve the db from the old. So I am testing it on another Win 7 computer.

I was wondering if there was some step I should have made before I created the backup, copy of the detached db and simple copy of the db folder to prepare it for the move to the new app? There were no active connections when I performed any of these steps.

Thanks for replying !!