Networking Problem? Perhaps Corruption? Need Troubleshoot Help

[strykerphoenix]

HI,

Our small non-profit organization has all of our data stored in an access database. We received a new computer, which a volunteer networked with our existing computers.

Everything worked great for a couple of weeks. Another volunteer transferred quickbooks from one computer to another, and after that point, we had intermittant Access troubles. After turning the computers (all three) on & off a few times, one could access our access database.

The volunteer who networked the three computers came to our office to help with the access problems. He discovered corruption on one of the computers (quick books) and fixed that. He also made the new computer the "home" of the access database. We copied 7 pasted the database to the c drive of the new computer & placed it in shared files so all three computers can access the database.

Everything worked great for a few hours, then the Access database on the new computer froze. Ever since then, one cannot access the Access database. One receives a message to enter the full netork path, and to attach VICSW Data.mdb. However, one cannot find such a file, even in hidden files.

We cannot even access the database zip files that were saved as backup. We receive the same message.

Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Ed2020]

Are you unable to open the database from any of the PCs (even the one that the database lives on)?

Have you tried logging on as an Administrator user to check it is not a permissions issue?

My gut feeling is this is not a database corruption problem, if only because the Zip files corrupting at the same time would be extremely unfortunate. Where are the Zip files held?

Try dropping a text file (or something like that) into the network share that homes your Access database. Check that you can access the file from all computers.

Ed Metcalfe.

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