[AccessD] properties

I had a strange occurrence last night and I just wanted to check the list to
see if anyone has ever seen such a thing.

Windows XP / Office XP, I remoted in to a client site and started work on a
FE.  At some point I tried to compact / repair the db and got the old error
message that "the database could be renamed" and the copy was saved to db2.
I saved the original and then renamed db2 and continued work.  I did NOT
test editing / adding records etc.  The client was asked to test the changes
and came back very upset that two entire tabs of the form were "locked".  I
remoted in tonight and started poking around and sure enough all the
subforms (controls) on those two tabs have the enabled property set to no
which prevents even setting the focus into the subform.  Further all of the
"allow edits/deletions/additions" are set to no for the actual subforms
themselves.

My conjecture is that something happened at the point Access tried to close
the database to do the compact/repair or when it attempted to delete the
original and rename the compacted copy.  Given the damage I've found so far
I certainly don't trust the copy to continue work on.  Who knows what else
has been changed.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing happen?  I never have, but there are so
many properties changed that I have to think that Access somehow set these
properties at some point.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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