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| Hi Tim et al - Historically, I've run VL5 from an external hard drive. Said drive fried itself (whilst closing VL5), and while as much data as possible has been recovered, VL refuses to reinstall, either from v4 or 5 - 4 claims fatal errors - VL5 tells me there's a more recent version installed - I don't want to lose my database - what to do? God bless, Stephen
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| Stephen Apologies, I did not read your message carefully enough. The guide may be some help, but you do need VL installed. I'd suggest saving the database, with the key file being the one called vislit.mdb, and putting it somewhere safe. Then use control panel to remove VL. Re-install, preferably from the download linked in the document. Then replace vislit.mdb with the one you saved. Tim
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| Thanks for that, Tim - after many shenanigans, I've managed to get the base package installed with (I think) all the current content updates. However, when I try to use my original database, VL refuses to run claiming (via the MS Jet engine) that "you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time" - this leads me to the (possibly wrong!) conclusion that my original .MDB file was corrupted during the disk meltdown - is there any way I can repair it via MS Access? Many thanks, Stephen
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