Unable to load the database properties

[margaret bartley]

When I click on "File", "Database Properties", I get the error message:

"Microsoft Access is unable to load the database properties"

This is Access 2000 on a WinXP machine.

I use the properties a lot, and this is the first time I've noticed this.

Other dbs' properties display correctly.

Neither copying, nor compact/repair correct the situation.

It's not a big deal, but I'd like to know what's going on, so I can not do
it agaain, since I do use these for documentation purposes.

Many thanks,
Margaret

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Yep, I've seen this personally myself..
Only remedy I found was to import all of the database objects
into a new container. Apparently something became corrupted.
MVP Dirk "Yoda" Goldgar once told me that he saw this when:
The only time I've seen anything like it was when I was work­ing on a
database in Access 2000, then copied it to my laptop and too­k it with me
on vacation, where I worked on it using Access 2002, but wit­hout
changing the database file format. As I recall it, I had st­ored some
information in the database properties when I was working in­ Access
2000, and then I modified the property when I was working un­der Access
2002. When I returned home and copied the updated version b­ack to work
on it with Access 2000 again, I found that I could no longer­ access the
database properties, and there was no way to recover them.

It turns out that A2K and A2K2 store the database properties­ in
different locations in the database file, and if you let A2K­2 store the
database properties, you won't be able to read them from A2K­ -- at
least, that's the way I remember it. I was quite upset abou­t the fact
that one can effectively lose data this way, with no warning­ that
anything of the sort could happen. When I complained to MS,­ however,
the answer was "This behavior is by design," which is their ­way of
saying, "Whether it's a good behavior or a bad behavior, we ­have no
intention of changing it." I was not happy

Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com
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