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gls858 - 21 Jun 2006 17:08 GMT

I get this error message when opening one of my databases:

Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object MSysDb.
Please make sure the objects exists and that you spell the name
and path name correctly. DB won't open.

Is a restore from backup my only choice or can this be fixed.

gls858

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Jerry Whittle - 21 Jun 2006 18:13 GMT

At times like this, nothing beats a good backup. There's a very good chance
that it's toast as it can't find a MSys table.

Tony Toews has an excellent web page on database corruption.
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm

Allen Brown also has excellent info on corruption.
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-47.html

I have a white paper in a Word document named Fix Corrupt Access Database
towards the bottom this page:
http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/OtherLibraries.asp

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> I get this error message when opening one of my databases:
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gls858 - 21 Jun 2006 19:19 GMT

> At times like this, nothing beats a good backup. There's a very good chance
> that it's toast as it can't find a MSys table.
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> towards the bottom this page:
> http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/OtherLibraries.asp

Thanks Jerry. We have a daily backup of the file just hoping to
save some data that was entered between the backup and the corruption.
Ended up restoring the file. Not a great loss of data but still time
consuming to track down what was entered after the backup.

gls858

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