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Mac office database error

Nov 8, 2011 11:57AM PST

Hi <div>I have Mac Office 2008

</div><div>For all my apps I keep having an error message the states

"There is a problem with the office database." </div><div> </div><div>The error message states to go to the database utility,
which I did </div>

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Access? may be security problem
Dec 16, 2011 10:29PM PST

IF you're talking about ACCESS it opens with a "Security Warning" with an option to "Enable Content".
IF you do NOT enable the content strange things happen to the database.
You need to enable the content as soon as the database opens.
See if that is what is causing your error.

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The OP is not talking about MS Access
Dec 16, 2011 10:40PM PST

that product does not exist for Mac and as this is the Mac Software forum it might be reasonably safe to assume that the OP is asking about Mac software.

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Any chance you can use Time Machine
Dec 16, 2011 10:45PM PST

to go back to a time when it was working?