Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 18:32:05 CST 2010
Was the navigation panel open? Try F11 if it is not showing on the left hand side of the screen. Doug Steele On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Doug Murphy <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote: > Folks, > > I have a weird one, seems like all I get. We developed a database app for a > client in Access 2007. The file is in the accdb format. All was well and we > were doing upgrades as the client needs them. Today I got the front end > file > back from them and it would not open on my computer. There is no error > message, Access just opens as it would if you opened it from the program > menu. I checked to make sure the database window, or what ever you call it > in A2007, wasn't hidden and I got a message that there was no file opened, > which is what it looks like. Did all the normal stuff, like get another > copy > of the file, compact repair, decompile, with no results. The file did > compact as it got smaller and it looks like it decompiled but after the > action I got the Access program window, i.e. no open database. I had the > client compact the file on their computer and resend. Still the same > non-result. Then I created a blank DB and imported all objects from the > file > that won't open into it. That worked. > > I tried this file on two of our computers with 2007 and got the same > behavior. Has anyone seen this before? Could it be a service pack thing? I > looked on Google and couldn't find any posts about this. I need to figure > out what is going on as I don't want to have to do this every time we move > files around with this client and I have spent a couple of hours messing > with this. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Doug > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >