Hello Access gurus,
I'm helping out a friend who's a small business owner. The software he
uses to run his shop uses an Access backend. We recently had some huge
headaches w/DB corruption. We had to send the main mdb file back to
the vendor, who had to send it to an outside company in order to get it
fixed. When they did this, we were told that it could be days until
we'd get it back. We had a backup that was 3 days old at that point,
so my friend made the decision to restore that and have one of his
employees enter the 3 missing days worth of data. 2 days after that
(of entering more data in day-to-day business), the file was fixed and
returned to us from the vendor. I asked the vendor if our backup was
"on it's way" to corruption or could we just keep using it since we
were up and running and current. The other option is to take their
repaired file and enter the 2 days that we'd be missing. The vendor
replied that we probably had "some" corruption in our backup.
Sorry for the long winded explanation, but is it possible that the
tables are "partly" corrupted and we could get the problem again if we
don't use their repaired files, or are we just as likely to get it with
the repaired files as our backups?
Thanks everyone.