Database Won't Open

[Pam in TX]

My boss took a database she had been working on to a meeting today on her flash drive to be used on a laptop.....

Now we can't get it to open at our office.... We get the following message "The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'MSysACEs'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly."

Is there anyway to fix this? I have tried compact and repair with no results.... I have tried to import it into a new db with no results... And of course, there is no backup of it........

Your help would be GREATLY appreciated.........

[OBP]

It sounds like your boss moved it instead of copying it. Does she still have the copy on her Flash Drive?
Did she copy it to her Laptop and get it to open?
Is it the original you can't open, her copy you can't open, or did you replace the original with her copy?

[Pam in TX]

It is only on the flash drive.............. and it won't open..........

We get the error message..... I put it onto my flash drive and have tried to open on my computer with no luck......

[Tommy]

Here I come out of left field again, but have you tried coping it to your hard drive in the same directory (if you don't have it make it) it was copied from?

Sometimes when coding we (Yes I did it) hard code the path or just "pick" the database.

[akn112]

are the tables linked tables or stored locally w/i the database?

[Qubit]

Try this Pam. Make a new blank database, then try to Import all the (damaged MDB) objects from there.
Q.

[DarkSprout]

ToDo:

Create A New MDB.
Inport All Objects From The Old/Broken Database.
Create Refs for Word/Outlook/Excel in Code Window where needed
Run (Like Hell)