[AccessD] corrupt database - backup rather out-dated.

Hi Bill:

I feel for you. 

I was in similar circumstances a number of years ago and the backup were very good and stable. Unfortunately, the backup system was using tapes and after a couple of months they were rotated. The system crashed on the very night the backup wrote over the previous nights work. Only a few days work was lost but it was a high security area and I ended up being grilled for hours. The core reason turned out to being caused by the government's senior system's administrator team, who added regular server upgrades to all the servers and then would reboot them, never noticing active database user still connected to server.

An aside: After that I never used bound databases again and never again suffered such a lost. 

Are you absolutely sure you have made no recent backups?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Benson" <bensonforums at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>, "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 5:30:53 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] corrupt database - backup rather out-dated.

Hi, I tried 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office\15\MSACCESS.EXE
"D:\Docs\zzzProgramming and Consulting\2014 Programming Development\Lew\Lew
DB2.accdb" /Compact

and
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office\15\MSACCESS.EXE
"D:\Docs\zzzProgramming and Consulting\2014 Programming Development\Lew\Lew
DB2.accdb" /Decompile

But I get the same error messages - and the database doesn't open.

I have used the tips I saw in
http://rogersaccessblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/help-my-database-is-corrupted-a
nd-i-cant-repair link but I cannot open the database without the error(s)
and I cannot import objects because after those errors, the wizard quits. I
cannot even open the objects in design view once the database opens. I have
had to resort to an old (much older) working copy of the database. I could
see the seeds of corruption even in there, because while editing controls on
a form with subforms, I saw that clicking on different controls would not
Property Sheet to rotate through controls.

So I have created a fresh database, added the same references, and created
new forms and subforms, and copied the controls and pasted them.

Some do not work, but this is probably because I changed the structure,
i.e., controls and rowsources and/or controlsources between versions.

A major pain in the butt and the pain is not over; I still would not mind
having some way to crack open the database to get at its pieces but I guess
if I cannot import from, go to design view, compact or decompile without
errors, nor open the VBE when the database is open, I am going to be out of
luck forever...?

Thank you Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mattys
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 7:48 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] corrupt database - backup rather out-dated.

Hi Bill,

Maybe try this in Command:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\msaccess.exe" "C:\My Folder\My
Database.accdb" /compact
http://rogersaccessblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/help-my-database-is-corrupted-a
nd-i.html

Michael R Mattys
Mattys Consulting, LLC
www.mattysconsulting.com


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