Friday, May 28, 2010

How to Resolve “Err Number 3049” in Microsoft Access

Is your Microsoft Access application performing slow? Are you getting various corruption errors while opening the database? Well, this problem can occur due to large size of Access database or corruption to the database. To insure optimal Access performance and remove the database problems, you should compact the Access database on regular basis. Sometimes, Access itself suggests you to compact the database if repair process fails on any MDB (Master Database) file or AccDB file. In such critical situations, the database remains in damaged state and you must go for MDB recovery solutions to get your mission-critical data back.

In a practical scenario of the Compact process failure, you may come across the below error message when you try to Compact a Microsoft Access database that is unusable and unreadable:

“Err Number 3049.
Err Desc: Cannot open database. It may not a be database that your application recognizes, or the file may be corrupt. Quit application?”
After the above error message, Compact process is terminated and the database remains unusable. You can not access your precious data from Microsoft Access database and face critical data loss situations. In order to get your valuable data back in such cases, you need to figure out the root of this problem and then recover Access database by fixing it.

Grounds of the problem:
As stated in the above error message, this behavior may take place due to corruption the Microsoft Access database. After corruption, application can not recognize the database and you come across database inaccessibility problems.

Access database corruption can be the outcome of various factors, such as virus infection, application malfunction, improper system shutdown, and user errors. You should maintain and update the backup of Access database to prevent data loss situations.

Resolution:
In order to sort out this problem and repair access file, you should restore the database from current backup. Backup proves great help in all database corruption and data loss situations. However, if the backup is not updated or available at all, you need to use third-party applications to repair and restore damaged database using commercial applications.

The Access repair software helps you to methodically scan entire database and extract all inaccessible data from it. They have self-descriptive and interactive graphical user interface to ensure quick and easy recovery.

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