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Hi. I have an Access2k sp3 database that is shared with a group of
users (it's on a network share). The database has grown to be about
1.3Gb and I want to compact it. I have tried to explain to the users
that compacting is a good (and necessary) thing and even added a
compact database button on the switchboard.

The problem is, that I keep getting an error "Could not use
'filename.mdb'; file already in use".

I tried to copy the .mdb to my c:\ drive, but I still get the same
error message. I keep searching for a rogue .ldb file but the only one
that gets created when I open the 'corrupt' file is the system.ldb file
in my msaccess.exe program folder.

thanks in advance for any assistance.

Paul

Nov 13 '05 #1
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That is pretty big.

You'll need plenty of disk space free of course to do what you want.

You could try importing it into a new database - compacting that and then
replacing the original.
If it doesn't massively drop in size then you'll maybe want to Archive some
of it away?

And Jetcomp might help you if there's nothing else.

Hope this helps.

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Hi. I have an Access2k sp3 database that is shared with a group of
users (it's on a network share). The database has grown to be about
1.3Gb and I want to compact it. I have tried to explain to the users
that compacting is a good (and necessary) thing and even added a
compact database button on the switchboard.

The problem is, that I keep getting an error "Could not use
'filename.mdb'; file already in use".

I tried to copy the .mdb to my c:\ drive, but I still get the same
error message. I keep searching for a rogue .ldb file but the only one
that gets created when I open the 'corrupt' file is the system.ldb file
in my msaccess.exe program folder.

thanks in advance for any assistance.

Paul

Nov 13 '05 #2

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