Corrupt Database Locking??

[LandesMD]

Last week my company upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2003. Everything has
been working ok this week, but last night I was unable to update records in a
database. After looking at it today, I discovered that when I open the .ldb
file the only thing listed is "䅌䑎å…㉗K†††††††††††æ‘業n†††††††††††††", nothing
else. I can go to another computer and open the same file, check the .ldb
and it is as expected, username admin. What is going on???

 

[LandesMD]

Partially resolved, my tables are links to excel ranges wich I just found out
I can't update. Any ideas about the name in the lock file?
Thanks

 

[Jerry Whittle]

As far as the non-updateable links to Excel, MS is in a lawsuit about links
to Excel and Access and had to turn that functionality off recently. I don't
think that they went back as far as A97. Here's some info on it:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904953/en-us

 

[LandesMD]

Figured it out, for some reason Access 2003 is putting the data in the ldb
file in a different language or something. I opened the ldb file in MS Word
instead of Notepad and everything was as it should be.
Thanks