Microsoft Access databases are widely used in PC computers. If the database .MDB or .ACCDB files are corrupt, then all the important data inside the database are lost permanently. This presentation provides 4 easy and efficient ways to repair a corrupt Access database, which will be helpful to DBA and all other Access users.

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How to Repair a Corrupt MS
Access File

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Data disaster occurs to MS Access Files all
over the time due to countless reasons.
It is said that frequent data editions in
Memo fields, long time usage, oversized
files can increase the risk of getting file
corrupt.
In this regard, Microsoft offers a built-in
feature to Compact and Repair the
database.
Now, let’s see the detailed procedure.

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Method 1: Compact and Repair an open
database automatically
1. Open MS Access, go to the “file” menu item
and click on “Options” menu item.

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2. The “Access Options” dialog will pop up.
Click the “Current Database” tab.

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3. Select the “Compact on Close” checkbox. Then
Access will compact and repair the current database
automatically when closing it.

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Method 2: Compact and Repair a closed
database
1. Open MS Access but do not open the database file.
2. Click the “Database Tools” menu item.

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3. Click the “Compact and Repair
Database” tool button.

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4. A dialog box “Database to Compact
From” will popup, navigate and double-click on
the database to be repaired.
Then, click “Open” to complete the command.

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Dealing with tricky recovery situations
There are some cases that the recovery feature can’t
work. At this time, you can fix the data in a new
database file, as follows:
 1. Start MS Access.
 2. Create a new database to store the data.
 3. Click on the “External data” menu and then click on
“Access” to import the database file.
 4. A “External Data-Access Database” dialog will
pop-up for selecting the destination file.

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5. Locate the destination of your corrupted database
file.
6. Then, click the checkbox “Import Tables, queries,
forms, reports, macros, and modules, into the
current database”. Following this, a dialog will pop up,
select the objects to be recovered and then finally
click on “OK”.

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The above 3 methods may still fail when the file
corruption is severe, or may be difficult for
novice. In such a case, you can use
DataNumen Access Repair to recover
your corrupt database file.

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Notes:
 Solutions suggested above to recover a
corrupt Access database are rather easy.
Generally, the size of the database file is the
main factor of the recovering time.
 Please make sure that you must be the only
one using the database while recovering the
corrupt Access database.

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