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Compact & Repair Corrupt Error Message
I get the error message below a lot when I do a compact and repair. I use
Access 2002. I have to do a compact and repair a couple more times to get it to compact and repair correctly. Does anyone know what the problem is? "Cannot open database...(path).It may not be a database that your application recognizes, or the file may be corrupt." |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:39:06 -0800, "HT"
wrote: I get the error message below a lot when I do a compact and repair. I use Access 2002. I have to do a compact and repair a couple more times to get it to compact and repair correctly. Does anyone know what the problem is? "Cannot open database...(path).It may not be a database that your application recognizes, or the file may be corrupt." The database may have some corruption that compact & repair cannot expunge - in fact it may be damaged beyond repair. Check out Tony Toews' excellent corruption FAQ: http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm for suggestions about how to prevent (or at least inhibit) such corruption, and to recover an intact database. John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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