Unexpected state

[YF]

Does anyone know what could have caused this error?
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The database is in an unexpected state; Microsoft Access
can't open it.

The database has been converted from a prior version of
Microsoft Access by using the DAO CompactDatabase method
instead of Convert Database command of the Tools menu
(Database Utilities submenu). This has left the database
in a partially coverted state.

If you have a copy of the database in its original format,
use the Convert Database command of the Tools menu
(Database Utilities submenu) to convert it. If the
original database is no longer available, create a new
database and import your tables and queries to preserve
your data. Your other database objects can't be recovered.
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We have a group of people using the same version of Access
2000 (SP1), but one person was recently hired and uses an
updated verions (SP3).

 

[Van T. Dinh]

It sounds like your database is corrupted.

See Tony Toews' Web page:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm

Have you split your database to Front-End and Back-End?

 

[K DOYLE]

I've received the exact message today and their have been
NO changes to this database. I've attempted recovering
the file from the last know good backup and I still
receive the same message.

Any ideas?!?

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Corruptions can occur at any time.

Try a few techniques as per Tony Toews' article.