I probably was not clear in my original post. We were given the MDB zipped on disk. When we opened it up it had no records, but was 30MB in size. So we called the client, asked why it was empty. They went into their copy, where the ZIP came from. The found that they had 0 records in the tables too. The day before we were at the client's office and saw the table, with data, in Access 97. But, after some discussion we found out they installed Access 2000 on their computer the next morning (not sure why), then they when through the gyrations of opening in 2000 and then back to 97, they did it with their ONLY copy of the MDB and then they created the disk to send to us. Also, the computer they use for this is not on a network, so no salvage. Can you say SNAFU?


computer that had the only existing copy of the MDB or they gave you a copy of the MDB and deleted it off their computer. At such time you copied the MDB
from the diskette and deleted the MDB from the diskette? I do not understand how this wound up with only 1 existing copy of their MDB file.

Was the MDB on a shared drive like a Novell drive where SALVAGE could be invoked to recover a deleted file? What's the story here?