[Solved] Database unable to open

[RoryOF]

As I understand it, to make hard drives appear faster, with the reduction in memory cost and the availability of low cost controllers, internal buffering has been built into hard drives. They remember the data sent to them, then sort it, so that it can be written in one movement of the heads across the disk platters. This makes modern hard drives much quieter - old codgers such as myself and several other Forum volunteers remember the constant "zip zip, click zip click" of older hard disks.

If the power goes off before these internal buffers in the drive have been written, that data is lost. So a good practice is to wait a few seconds for drives to finish their work after an "OK to power off message" from the operating system. That message has no knowledge of the internal buffering of the hard drives and the few extra seconds that one may wait is a lot less than the time taken to attempt to recover a damaged file/data, and ultimately to rebuild it.

[temotech]

I need help . I have a odb database that i can't open anymore. do you any program that can fix it.

[temotech]

I need help. My odb database is "out of service"!!!!!

[Sliderule]

I need help . I have a odb database that i can't open anymore. do you any program that can fix it.

Since you cannot open your Base file ( *.odb ) . . . if you post your file here, or, some other file sharing link ( such as MediaFire http://www.mediafire.com/ ) so I can determine if I might be able to open the file ( at least the database portion ) . . . I will try to help.

Sliderule

[temotech]

this is the address: http://www.mediafire.com/file/291tl1ukz ... esktop.zip
Thanks for help Sliderule

[Sliderule]

temotech:

I am sending you a PM ( Private Message ) regarding the status of you database.

Please read it and let me know how I should proceed.

Sliderule

[ChrisS]

Good day,

I need urgent help please!

I've been working on my database for a couple of years now and have all our clients' information on this database. I did reporting on it yesterday (2018/05/02) and everything worked fine. I saved and exited like I always do. Then this morning when I wanted to open my database, it just doent open at all. First I thouht it might be an OpenOffice issue, but I can create a new database so it is not the program...

Does anyone have any advise on how I can resolve this problem?

Thank you,

Chris

[Sliderule]

Good day,

I need urgent help please!

I've been working on my database for a couple of years now and have all our clients' information on this database. I did reporting on it yesterday (2018/05/02) and everything worked fine. I saved and exited like I always do. Then this morning when I wanted to open my database, it just doent open at all. First I thouht it might be an OpenOffice issue, but I can create a new database so it is not the program...

Does anyone have any advise on how I can resolve this problem?

Thank you,

Chris

Since you cannot open your Base file ( *.odb ) . . . if you post your file here, or, some other file sharing link ( such as MediaFire http://www.mediafire.com/ ) so I can determine if I might be able to open the file ( at least the database portion ) . . . I will try to help.

NOTE: OpenOffice Version 3.3 is a very old ( too old ) version. Additionally, since this is such an IMPORTANT / URGENT set of information, you should always have a backup of the file.

Sliderule

[ChrisS]

Good day,

I need urgent help please!

I've been working on my database for a couple of years now and have all our clients' information on this database. I did reporting on it yesterday (2018/05/02) and everything worked fine. I saved and exited like I always do. Then this morning when I wanted to open my database, it just doent open at all. First I thouht it might be an OpenOffice issue, but I can create a new database so it is not the program...

Does anyone have any advise on how I can resolve this problem?

Thank you,

Chris

Since you cannot open your Base file ( *.odb ) . . . if you post your file here, or, some other file sharing link ( such as MediaFire http://www.mediafire.com/ ) so I can determine if I might be able to open the file ( at least the database portion ) . . . I will try to help.

NOTE: OpenOffice Version 3.3 is a very old ( too old ) version. Additionally, since this is such an IMPORTANT / URGENT set of information, you should always have a backup of the file.

Sliderule

Hi,

Thank you for the reply. I've sent you a PM with the "MediaFire" link to the shared file.

[Joe19]

Hello, unfortunately I experienced the same problem. Once I opened the database, it gave a menu with different options for the file type. No matter which one I select, Open Office still doesn't recognize the format. I also installed the latest version and the problem persists. Can someone please send me directions on how to make it open, or it usually crashes in different ways and there is no general way to fix it?

Thanks a lot.

Joe

OpenOffice 4.1.5

[Sliderule]

Joe19:

I am sending you a PM ( Private Message ) regarding the status of you database.

Please read it and let me know how I should proceed.

Sliderule

[Joe19]

Sliderule successfully fixed the database, and of course as every situation is different, it is difficult to provide general solution. Thank you very much!

[Smullie1]

Same problem here, hope you can help me too....

[Smullie1]

Guess I'm up for a PM by Sliderule...Same problem here.

Thx in advance!

[Krokodille238]

I might be the latest victim, of the database crash history in this forum. I have a database I'm been working on, for many years now, and suddenly it stop working. when I try to open it, I get the "Filter Selection" page. I would appreciate some help, to get it up running again.

[Sliderule]

Krokodille238:

I am sending you a PM ( Private Message ) regarding the status of you database.

Please read it and let me know how I should proceed.

Sliderule

[Krokodille238]

Thanks Sliderule. My database is fully recovered and working again (thats nearly 30 years of work you saved), so again many thanks for your help.

Krokodille238

[michaelboix]

Hi,
i also need help with an .odb file,
you may can help me?

Kind regards
Michael

[Sliderule]

michaelboix:

I am sending you a PM ( Private Message ) regarding the status of you database.

Please read it and let me know how I should proceed.

Sliderule

[sandfork4@gmail.com]

unable to open db same problem need the fix.

[Sliderule]

sandfork4 @ gmail.com:

I am sending you a PM ( Private Message ) regarding the status of your database.

Please read it and let me know how I should proceed.

Sliderule

[sandfork4@gmail.com]

Problem fixed

[eugenefairfield]

I have this same problem. Trying to open a database I originally set up under Windows 7, but have accessed recently under Windows 10. Now says "driver class '' could not be loaded." Lot's of important information is inaccessible, please help.

[RoryOF]

It is helpful if we are told the name of the underlying database engine.

[Villeroy]

Does the status bar look like this?

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Did you install a 32-bit version of Java? Notice the C:\Program Files (x86)\ in the path.

You get it from here:


You can also install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. LibreOffice for WIndows is 64-bit software and works well with a 64-bit Java