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Only that 1 time was I unable to repair/recover it; and it that 1
case, PM wouldn't have been able to either.... it was VERY
strange. Not even sure if I didn't have a momentary [hardware]
issue with memory....
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How do you know he couldn't? Do you have the tools to explore the
internal Jet file structure and the knowledge of it to be able to
say that data was not recoverable? Peter does have those tools and
that knowledge, having developed them himself over the years. I
would never presume to guess whether or not a corrupted MDB is
recoverable or not, given that I have no evidence or knowledge that
gives me a chance of making any kind of judgment of just how corrupt
it is internally.
 
David;

Of course, you are correct; I cannot say that definitively. Though I
can say it with a great deal of confidence. I examinded it with a hex
editor, and found huge area's of severe corruption. It was as though
the "framework" was still in place, but the innerd's with all the
important stuff was gone. I would analogize it with having a hard disk
with partition table, and directory structure all intact, and you could
view the directory; but None of the files had any data what-so-ever (if
you've ever done intimate work with fat32, you know what I mean).

In any case, my comment wasn't meant as a criticism of Peter in any
way, just a relative gauge of the state of the mdb.

Bob
Only that 1 time was I unable to repair/recover it; and it that 1
case, PM wouldn't have been able to either.... it was VERY
strange. Not even sure if I didn't have a momentary [hardware]
issue with memory....
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How do you know he couldn't? Do you have the tools to explore the
internal Jet file structure and the knowledge of it to be able to
say that data was not recoverable? Peter does have those tools and
that knowledge, having developed them himself over the years. I
would never presume to guess whether or not a corrupted MDB is
recoverable or not, given that I have no evidence or knowledge that
gives me a chance of making any kind of judgment of just how corrupt
it is internally.
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