My Access program has a line
DBEngine.CompactDatabase……
to compact a database.
The line worked fine in a machine with Access 2000 SP3 and WinXP Pro SP2, but crashed in a machine with Access 2000 SP3 and Windows XP Home SP2. Can anyone give me a clue why it happened this way?
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DBEngine.CompactDatabase (Access 2K SP3)
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 2, 2004 at 10:18 am #412995Viewing 1 reply threadAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 2, 2004 at 11:29 am #907780 -
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 2, 2004 at 11:45 am #907789I doubt that Windows XP Home itself is the culprit (although I cannot be sure about this)
Has the latest service pack for Jet 4.0 been installed on the Windows XP Home PC? See How to obtain the latest service pack for the Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database Engine for details.
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WSlesoch
AskWoody LoungerDecember 3, 2004 at 12:02 am #908205After scratching my head and wasting your precious time in answering my posts, I managed to solve the problem. It wasn’t Windows XP Home nor the version of my MSJet, it was the corrupted back-end data! I actually and simply copied the original data from a WinXP Pro machine to my WinXP Home machine and did some data entry. Then the DBEngine.CompactDatabase surfaced. When I browsed through separately the back-end database with Access, some records had “Invalid bookmark” problem. After replacing the corrupted database with the original one, DBEngine.CompactDatabase works as expected.
Now is my time to find out why the database got corrupted….
Thanks for your reponse, Hans.
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WSlesoch
AskWoody LoungerDecember 3, 2004 at 12:02 am #908206After scratching my head and wasting your precious time in answering my posts, I managed to solve the problem. It wasn’t Windows XP Home nor the version of my MSJet, it was the corrupted back-end data! I actually and simply copied the original data from a WinXP Pro machine to my WinXP Home machine and did some data entry. Then the DBEngine.CompactDatabase surfaced. When I browsed through separately the back-end database with Access, some records had “Invalid bookmark” problem. After replacing the corrupted database with the original one, DBEngine.CompactDatabase works as expected.
Now is my time to find out why the database got corrupted….
Thanks for your reponse, Hans.
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WSHansV
AskWoody LoungerDecember 2, 2004 at 11:45 am #907790I doubt that Windows XP Home itself is the culprit (although I cannot be sure about this)
Has the latest service pack for Jet 4.0 been installed on the Windows XP Home PC? See How to obtain the latest service pack for the Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database Engine for details.
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 2, 2004 at 11:29 am #907781
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