Help!! Database corrupted!!!

[Carl Foster]

Hope you can help guys. Here's what happened.

I saved a form as a different name so that I could work on it. I made some changes to the new saved form then tried to save it to the name of the old form, to overwrite it. It came up with an overwrite warning, i said yes and suddenly the database went crazy and had to shut down.

When I restarted, the form I tried to overwrite was gone from the list, but the one I had worked on was still there, so I thought, "thats ok, I'll just rename it".

Well, it won't let me rename it either, and comes up with error messages all the time now saying that the form that was overwritten no longer exists. What have I done!!!!

 

[ColinEssex]

One way may be to copy everything from the old Db into a new (blank) Db.

Col

 

[ShaneMan]

Hope you can help guys. Here's what happened.

I saved a form as a different name so that I could work on it. I made some changes to the new saved form then tried to save it to the name of the old form, to overwrite it. It came up with an overwrite warning, i said yes and suddenly the database went crazy and had to shut down.

When I restarted, the form I tried to overwrite was gone from the list, but the one I had worked on was still there, so I thought, "thats ok, I'll just rename it".

Well, it won't let me rename it either, and comes up with error messages all the time now saying that the form that was overwritten no longer exists. What have I done!!!!

Hey Carl,

Here's a link that will give a number of links to follow on db corruption. Hopefully one will help you out.

http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/corruption.html

HTH,
Shane

 

[Carl Foster]

Thanks guys, i ended up copying everything piece by piece to a new blank db.

 

[ShaneMan]

Thanks guys, i ended up copying everything piece by piece to a new blank db.

Good deal. Glad you got it fixed. It's always a scare thing when you've worked on something for awhile and then get corrupted.

Shane