Acc 2003 Forms have disappeared

[je]

I have had an odd thing happen. I have Office 2000, 2002, and 2003 on
system. Have recently developed a couple of new db in 2003 as well as
having upgraded a few to 2003.

When I tried to open the db's today the forms, macros, reports, and
modules were gone. Anybody heard of this?

TIA

jp

 

[Dr. Know]

(e-mail address removed) said:

I have had an odd thing happen. I have Office 2000, 2002, and 2003 on
system. Have recently developed a couple of new db in 2003 as well as
having upgraded a few to 2003.

When I tried to open the db's today the forms, macros, reports, and
modules were gone. Anybody heard of this?

TIA

jp

Yes, I've had it happen. Killed a couple hours work the first time.
Now I keep multiple copies of the databases as work progresses.

Just for kicks, try creating a new form with the same name as the
missing form(s) and try to save it. Access will prompt you with a
"File exists, want to overwrite"mesage. Strange, eh?
Gotta love that Bill. :-|

I have NO idea how to recover the missing forms. Database repair does
nothing.

Anyone else have ideas?


Dr. Know

 

[je]

I'm at a complete loss to explain. I've re-imaged drive, but....

In looking back it seems to me that I may have opened some 2000 dbs
with 2003, and these are the ones that are missing. The only good db
I have is one that I made in 2003.

Go figure.

jp

 

[Dr. Know]

(e-mail address removed) said:

I'm at a complete loss to explain. I've re-imaged drive, but....

In looking back it seems to me that I may have opened some 2000 dbs
with 2003, and these are the ones that are missing. The only good db
I have is one that I made in 2003.

Go figure.

jp

The forms that disappeared in my Database were on the same Access
version, same computer, same copy of Access 2000. They were there one
day, and gone the next - this was two days ago. Really PMO! There
was a heap of form level VB code lost in the process.

I have also discovered that if there are strange formatting characters
in the FORMAT field of a text box, that Access sometimes refuses to
open the file in Design View OR Form View.

FYI,

Dr. Know

 

[ckernssdRgsdgf]

(e-mail address removed) said:


The forms that disappeared in my Database were on the same Access
version, same computer, same copy of Access 2000. They were there one
day, and gone the next - this was two days ago. Really PMO! There
was a heap of form level VB code lost in the process.

I have also discovered that if there are strange formatting characters
in the FORMAT field of a text box, that Access sometimes refuses to
open the file in Design View OR Form View.

Haven't seen this one...and hope I don't!!