> Is ther any way to recover a corrupt form?
The simplest way is to obtain it from your most recent backup. When I am
"heavy into" development mode, I make a backup copy several times a day --
determine the timing of your backup copies by the amount of work that you
are willing to repeat.
Save a copy of the failed database as a baseline reference (if none of the
suggestions work, then there are some third-party data recovery operations,
one being http://www.pksolutions.com, paid recovery but free estimate, last
I heard).
Each time, working on a copy of your baseline reference:
1. It is sometimes possible to recover a form by Compact and Repair, I am
told -- I never was able to accomplish it that way, or
2. Decompile and recompile, or
3. Create a new, empty database and import each of the objects from the
corrupted one, or.
4. Use the officially-undocumented Save As Text / Load From Text features.
For more information on #2 or #4, visit the Google Groups newsgroup archive
website and search this, microsoft.public.access.forms,
microsoft.public.access.formscoding, and the USENET newsgroup
comp.databases.ms-access for details.
5. If none of these work, you'll have to punt, er, contact a data recovery
service. The only one on which I have had consistently good feedback is the
one I referred to earlier, http://www.pksolutions.com.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access
>Is ther any way to recover a corrupt form?
Quite often in A2003 when this happens to me a decompile fixes things.
Decompile or how to reduce Microsoft Access MDB/MDE size and decrease
start-up times
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/decompile.htm
Tony

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Alan - 05 May 2008 15:13 GMT
> >Is ther any way to recover acorruptform?
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Hi,
There is a tool called Advanced Access Repair. I have used it to
repair many corrupt Access MDB files on my damaged disks successfully.
Its homepage is http://www.datanumen.com/aar/ Hope this experience
will help.
Alan
Tony Toews [MVP] - 14 May 2008 02:54 GMT
>There is a tool called Advanced Access Repair. I have used it to
>repair many corrupt Access MDB files on my damaged disks successfully.
>Its homepage is http://www.datanumen.com/aar/ Hope this experience
>will help.
You also work for that company. Posting without disclosing any
connection is highly unethical.
Tony

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