Question

I have a legacy ASP application that I support. By support I mean that I haven’t touched it since about 2005 because its just worked.

However there were a couple of data issues in the Access database that the ASP application uses. So like a fool I opened the database directly over a fileshare (using MS Access 2007), fixed the data and saved it down (in Access 2000 format).

Now the application will retrieve and display the data OK, but any updates fail with the error 3705: Operation is not allowed when the object is open. I have not changed the code in any way, the only change was the data update and database save.

I’ve found plenty of examples of this error, but they all relate to fairly simple issues like ensuring the recordset is closed before opening it, changing the CursorLocation enum, etc. I’ve tried most of these in the vain hope that something will work, but nothing has.

Any ideas how can I fix this?

Thanks.

UPDATE

I’ve installed a web based access database management system, and have tried to compact and repair the database. I received the error:

The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file '<snip>'. It is
already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view
its data. (-2147217911)

I have run the macro detailed here to determine who is logged onto the database, and just showed the admin user (which was me – while running it)

Answer 1

@Remou’s comment above about checking the file and folder permissions was correct.

I had our server admin check the permissions, and it seems that the write access had dropped off the folder (and the files also inherit their permissions from the folder). He said that this has happened before when saving directly over the fileshare.

(accepting in lieu of an answer from @Remou)