[AccessD] LDBView

David A. Gibson dgibso at uark.edu
Thu Jun 29 10:35:16 CDT 2006


I can use EditPad Lite to open ldb files and see the computer 
name.  That may be a little help.  EditPad Lite if the free version 
and there is a Pro ver.

You can replace Notepad as the default text editor.  :-)

http://www.editpadpro.com/

David G.

At 09:24 AM 6/29/2006, you wrote:
>Does anyone have something like LDBView for 2000 (or newer) databases?  We
>recently converted from Office 97 to Office 2003, and have a few of our
>databases (even very stable ones) get corrupted several times in the last
>week and a half.  LDBView would tell me who corrupted a 97 database, but it
>doesn't work correctly with Access 2000 and up.  Everything I have found on
>Google so far points to an MSKB article which has code to get a schema
>through ADO, to see who is in a database.  That's all well and good, but it
>doesn't work if the db is corrupt, because it can't connect to it.  I even
>created an app that stayed 'in' the database, and when it went corrupt, the
>code from MS didn't show who corrupted it.
>
>
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>I am about halfway through creating a new LDBView, but it's involving a lot
>of guess work and reverse engineering.  Getting a little tired of walking up
>hill with this, so if anyone has something prebuilt, it would be much
>appreciated!
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>
>Drew



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