Trouble with a corrupted .MDW file

[wfweirich]

I am working with an Access 97 database that has a security piece on top of it utilizing a workgroup. Some how the file has been corrupted and no one can access the data. I have tried to create a blank database and import the objects from the troubled database and I get stopped because of permissions violations. Is there any way to strip the permissions and groups from the database in order to gain access to the objects and somehow reconstruct this database. Thanks for listening. wfw

 

[Vidar13]

Use the Jet Compact utility. This handy little program lets you rebuild corrupt databases created in Access that Access' own compact and repair function won't.

I have a copy of it if you need. I'm sure it was a freebee, but I can't remember where I originally got it.