Compact and repair does not work correctly

[Galena98]

Compact and repair is not working as it is creating a duplicate database
named db1.mdb and is not removing the previous db and renaming db1 to the old
db name. I have had an open ticket with my company for 5 days now and no one
seems to be able to fix the issue. Has anyone ever had this happen to them?
I can run compact and repair when logged into another desktop system and have
no problems, but when I try to run this on my own system (company issued
laptop - IBM Thinkpad T43), it doesn't work right.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Sounds as though you might not the necessary permissions to delete files
from the folder where the MDB exists.

 

[Galena98]

Thank you but I don't think that's the problem because when I login to
another pc in my group, I can do this without a problem and I'm accesssing
the same dbs and folders.

Someone in our tech support thought I may be that I don't have the right
priviliges for Access, but they have to look into it because nothing they've
tried so far has worked.