Access Password Recovery

June 14, 2007 3:35 PM

My MS Access files are password protected. I don't know/remember what the password is. I need help on password recovery.

I was playing with users and rights setup for an Access database file. Everything was working fine until I deleted the file shortcut at my desktop screen. Then, suddenly all my other Access files are password protected. I tried to use the login and password to open the file, but it won't work. Now, I can't open any Access file (password protected), and I have no idea what is going on. Has this ever happened to you? I'm panicing now. Please help. Thanks.

posted by dy to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Google? and Elcomsoft's solution is probably legit.
posted by tmcw at 3:54 PM on June 14, 2007

You can try here.
posted by Roger Dodger at 4:20 PM on June 14, 2007

Second Elcomsoft.
posted by scalefree at 6:06 PM on June 14, 2007

Did you look in the Trash Bin? Maybe you can restore the shortcut.
posted by RussHy at 7:56 PM on June 14, 2007

Try opening the file(s) on a different computer that has Access installed. Or reinstall/repair Access on the machine that's giving you problems.
posted by aerotive at 9:31 PM on June 14, 2007

Response by poster: I took aerotive's advice and was able to open the file from other computers through the company network. So I detected the problem to be local. I located the workgroup information file created during the process of users setup. I deleted it and everything is back to normal now (no password protection). Whew.
posted by dy at 7:57 AM on June 15, 2007