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Old October 18th, 2006, 01:00 PM
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Default Access 2000 database file locked up

I know this is an old and common problem for many people. In fact, I have had this problem for a long time but still have not fixed.

My customer was using our VB6 application with Access 2000 database on a standalone industrial machine. This morning she could not start the application and got an error:

3197 The Microsoft Jet database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time.

I prompted her to search for any ldb files but she could not find any in the whole hard drive. Then she emailed me the database file.

Of course, I cannot not open it so I cannot do Compact and Repair through Access tool. Then I tried using VB code to repair it but I still got the same error.

Here are my questions:

1. How to fix the database? Any tools or third party software I can use?

2. What caused the crash?

Please help soon. Thanks.

Jeff
 
Old October 19th, 2006, 10:38 AM
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You don't need to open the database to compact and repair. Open Access without a file, then go to Tools > Database Utilities > Compact and Repair, and then point to the database file. See if that works.

Yu can also create a new file and link to the wrecked one and see if you can carry out any actions on the linked tables to see if you get record locking issues.



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