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[dglienna]

Unless you have 5 or LESS users (at least with the old versions) They would corrupt DB files with 6 or 7 concurrent requests. Everything went down, until the DB was rebuilt.

This is from the old days, when we used it. We'd rebuild BEFORE each run.

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
' Set Reference to Microsoft Jet Runtim Object (JRO)
'  BROWSE if not found: \program files\common files\system\ado\msjro.dll
  CompactAndRepair (db$)
End Sub


Sub CompactAndRepair(db$)
  Dim jro As jro.JetEngine, xn$
  Set jro = New jro.JetEngine
  Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
  xn = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & App.Path & "\"
  jro.CompactDatabase xn & db, xn & db & "-2"
  If Len(Dir(App.Path & "\" & db & "-2")) > 0 Then
    Kill App.Path & "\" & db
    Do While Len(Dir(App.Path & "\" & db)) > 0
      DoEvents               ' wait for delete
    Loop
    Name App.Path & "\" & db & "-2" As App.Path & "\" & db
    Do While Len(Dir(App.Path & "\" & db)) = 0
    DoEvents        ' wait for copy to complete
    Loop
End If
Screen.MousePointer = vbDefault
End Sub