opening a file after computer lockup

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Carl

I have a client whose computer shut down while he was
working on an Access database and now he can't open the
file because Access still thinks it's opened by another
user. Does anyone know of a fix for this?
 
1) Make a backup copy of the file, just to be safe.

2) Go to the folder that the file is in. With no one using the database,
delete the *.ldb file if you find one with the same name as the database. Do
this for the front-end, back-end, and system files.

3) If you can now open the database, do a compact and repair on each mdb/mde
file.

Read these articles on database corruption so that you'll know what to look
for if it should show up.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/ser-25.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/ser-47.html
 
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