What you saw was the "view" of the table that you had opened before the user
deleted that record, and then the table tried to retrieve it to show it to
you and it was gone -- hence, "#Deleted". When you closed the table, had you
opened it again, you then would have seen no trace of that "error" because
the table would no longer find that record and try to display it -- it was
deleted.

You can do the same as a test by opening a form that is based on a table,
deleting a record from the form's data, and watching the table where that
record was.
--

Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP


"Reader1" wrote in message
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Hello,

Whilst looking through one of the tables in my database at work I noticed
a record that had '#Deleted' as the value for every field.

Could anyone shed some light on this ?

Two users were logged on and using the table (through forms) at the time.

I asked them to log out which they did.

I then logged out also.

On logging back in however I was unable to find the record again. It had
just disappeared !!

I'm not sure if this was a 'ghost' record or has one of my records been
overwritten ? Or even deleted ?

I do have a back up from the previous day (which doesn't contain this
record as I've looked) but since the last back up the previous day another
two hundred records have been added to the table so I don't know if any
records have been affected or not.

It's Access 97 and all pretty basic stuff, no fancy codes or anything,
just tables and forms and a few queries. No linked tables or external
files. There are approximately 3500 records in the table where this odd
record was.

The database is shared on a network, each PC is Windows 2000, it's not
split and it's not encrypted. It is secure with regard to users and logins
etc.
I am the only one with Admin privileges.

:-(

Help Please

Thank you