Linking a geodatabase

[Johanna]

Hi!
I often link GIS-files into access databases in order to be able to update
information in the attribute table directly from Access (much faster than in
ArcGIS). But since my shapefiles were becoming very large and getting damaged
all tihe time, I imported them into a file-geodatabase. But now I can't link
them into the Access database as the format is not accepted (the files don't
show in the list).

Does anyone have any idea what to do? Or do I have to stick to regular
shapefiles?

Thanks!

/Johanna