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I have a database with some forms that was created by former employee and i am experiencing a problem. Whenever someone closed the database abnormally, it will create a seperate database file in the directory for ex, db1, and if 2nd person doesn't close the database by clicking on the close command button, it will create db2 and etc.. I am not sure what are all those files, but it appeared it is duplicating the database. When I open the original database, some of the data that have been entered by other users got lost. I can't track where the records went. Everything is tied to an ID (auto number field), when user# 1 said he enter this informatin with ID 10, but if i looked up the record in the database for ID 10, it actually has somebody's else's name. It is a shared database and used by a group of people to input information into the database. With this problem happping, i don't even know how to fix this or prevent this from happening again or what caused this to happen. Does anybody know anthing?? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Do you have this set up with everyone having their own front end and sharing a back end on the server?

Is your database set to compact on close?

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No, they have set up where everybody can go to the shared drive and open the database. I think I do see something like compacting the datbase during closing of the database. What does compacting do??

please help.

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You should have all of your shared Access applications divided into front-end and back-end MDBs.

Search Help on compacting. There is lots of good information in Help.

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Duane's advice is, of course, right on the money! Having all users go to a shared drive and opening a database is a frequently sighted cause for database corruption.

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