[mdb-dev] Compacat & Repair Database Issues

[Kyle R. B. <mo...@vo...>]

Hello,

I just discovered an issue with mdb-export (it might be more pervasive
in the library, I haven't dug too much further into the issue).

I've created an mdb file, then edited it by changing the column names,
or editing the cell data (not adding new rows, just editing existing data).  
After these edits, mdb-export prints an empty field for the edited cells.  
If, in MS Access, I run

  Tools->Database Utilities->Compact and Repair Database...

mdb-export then shows the correct cell values.

I didn't know if this was a known issue, I searched the mdbtools-dev list
archive on sourceforge and didn't come up with any hits for 'compact',
and there was nothing that I could see in the FAQ.

I also didn't know if there was something in the file's structure/format 
that could point to where the new data is (I'm not at all fmailliar with 
the internal structures of the mdb file format - I've never even looked
at it).


Thanks,

Kyle

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