[AccessD] OT: Corrupted database

Is it possible one of your users opened the database in Word?  That will
certainly cause the situation you've described, and in that case the
database is well and truly hosed beyond recovery.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software [mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:14 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Corrupted database


I don't get an error message.  It just ponders for about a minute then
Access terminates with no error message and I get to send a message to
Microsoft if I want to (like dropping rocks into a deep pool).

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Smith" <weeden1949 at hotmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Corrupted database


> Rocky:
>
> What kind of error do you get when you try to 'repair' the db?  The 
> following MS article told me the unfortunate news when I was getting 
> this type of error on a customer's db.  They had to restore from a 
> backup copy
I
> had (their tape backup wasn't working...go figure) and reenter all the
data
> since I'd made my copy.
>
> Look at:  KB158933 ACC: Error Message: <Database Name> Isn't an Index 
> in This Table
>
> If you're getting THAT one, you're hosed.
>
> Greg Smith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
> To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:54 PM
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Corrupted database
>
>
> Dear List:
>
> I have a database from a client which seems pretty well hosed (A2K).  
> When you start it you get the message "Database (database name) needs 
> to be repaired or isn;t a database".  I say go ahead and let Access 
> try to
repair
> it but it ends in an abnormal termination of access.
>
> I've tried decompile, jetcomp.exe, and jetutils.  No dice.  Can't do 
> an import into a fresh database either.
>
> I'm out of tricks.  Are there any other approaches?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rocky Smolin
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