Often times, your application may started causing General
Protection Faults in various internal objects or dependent dlls. These
errors do not seem to get fixed by compact/repair. Access 97 has an undocumented
/decompile command line option that very frequently fixes this type of
problem.Usage:
msaccess.exe /decompile "c:\something\OrTheOther.mdb"
Access 2000: There is no UI associated with the command line option.
Therefore, you will get no message boxes or any other visual indication that the
project has been decompiled (except checking the Compile and Save all Modules
menu option).
Caution:
Decompile is a powerful option. Use it with caution,
in cases where the db is corrupt, and not with a constant frequency. More
details can be found at this link, thanks to Michael
Kaplan.
To the best of what I know, (thanks to
Michael Kaplan) /decompile tricks Access into thinking that the binary format of
the database has to be changed. This automatically decompiles the entire database.
As is evident from the cases when it's
solved the problem, this option works more often in resolving IPFs than any patches.
So if everything else fails, give this a try!!
Disclaimer:
Being an
undocumented option, there is no guarantee that it will be present in the future
versions of the product.
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