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chambersss:
Hi all.

I need help with Microsoft Access 2013.  I can not open the Access document cause of the following message: "Invalid database ". Any ideas what might be causing this? Please advise me how to repair Access.

I have created this document on Windows 8. Now I am using Windows 10

x16wda:
Is that the full error message? I didn't see any hits with just "invalid database" in a search, they were all invalid database object reference, or unrecognized database format or something.

MilesAhead:
I am not Access savvy, but generally if it is saying the whole database is invalid it sounds like a corrupted file.  Do you have a backup?

chambersss:
x16wda, This is a full error message

MilesAhead I don't

Shades:
Then you will have to fall back to software similar to this: http://www.accessfilerepair.net/

Access is know to corrupt easily as it uses by default a single file containing all database logic you added and the data you put into it. Single point of failure if you will. This makes it also easy to create a backup. But as you don't have a backup, I must assume that your access database isn't of much value to you.

In that case, isn't it an option to start over from scratch? And make backups afterwards?

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