Access Database that is shared with my company on a network drive..When I copy and paste it to my desktop there linked some how? I have an Access Database that is shared with my company on a network drive..When I Click on the drive and copy and paste it to my desktop and make changes to it the database that is on the drive also gets the changes but I dont want to change that one yet.

When I change data in the database on my desktop it changes the database on the drive?
I have tried changing the name, I have checked the source file, and I also checked to see if the program had some kind of link but still can not find any solution?
When you copy the complete access database to another place and modify it there, then the data in your source database would not be changed.

The most likely explanation is, that not all data is stored in the database you copied, but instead some of the tables are links to another access database or even ODBC connections to a completely different database system.

You can usually quickly recognize those tables by having another symbol in your tables list.