Recovering lost images in MS Access database

If you have lost various images from Access database .MDB file, then steps to recover them must be taken immediately and meticulously. Different types of images, scanned art, computer graphics, and digital pictures are saved in various components of MS Access database components like tables, forms, reports, etc. Images can be in form of embedded image as the internal part of database or they can be linked to a network or hard drive. These images can be lost or just become inaccessible.

The reasons for Inaccessibility of these images could be

Access database corruption

Network damage

VBA (Visual Basic Applications) corruption

For recovering lost images in MS Access database, you will first need to analyze VBA code used for displaying the static images. After verifying that VBA code is correct, repair database file using “Compact and Repair” utility. Following are the steps required for using this utility.

Go to Tools  Database Utilities  Compact and Repair Database.

Click Compact after searching and selecting the database in the ‘Database to Compact From’ dialog box.

Select a new folder location for the file in the ‘Compact Database Into’ dialog box. Provide a unique name to the file.

Click Save.

Compact and Repair utility are successful in some cases and images are accessible again. But when the degree of corruption is high, it fails. At that point of time, Kernel for access repair software proves to be handy and very much effective too. This software aims at recovering each and every lost images, data, tables, forms, reports, etc from Access database .mdb file.

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