Access 3218 Form Error
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us could not update currently locked access 2010 Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community the microsoft access database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Error 3218 could not update currently locked access 2013 Could not update; currently locked -Msaccess [closed] up vote -1 down vote favorite I got an error with my Msaccess DB. multiple users are using this DB's frontend. I do not know why I am getting this error message as follows Error ms access record locking 3218 Could not update; currently locked can someone help me please...... ms-access ms-access-2003 share|improve this question asked Oct 28 '10 at 19:07 user397316 591211 closed as off-topic by George Stocker♦ Jul 7 '13 at 1:25 This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:"Questions about general computing hardware and software are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve tools used primarily for programming. You may be able to get help on Super User." – George StockerIf this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question. 1 Please add some details about what you were doing when you got this message. –Fionnuala Oct 28 '10 at 19:12 Are you by chance trying to run a SQL UPDATE against a table that is open in a form? –David-W-Fenton Oct 28 '10 at 22:59 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote The elephant in the room here is that multiple users are using the same front end. This is generally the first step down the road of access pain that often leads to access getting tarred with the “Access is not fit for more than 5 users” brush. First thing is to get every user to have their own copy of the front end on their local drive. You can use the excellent access auto FE updater to make rolling out a new version easy www.autofeupdater.com share|improve this answer answered Oct 29 '10 at 7:11 Kevin Ross 6,02421223 Good catch on that. The error message might be thrown by users contending for one of the system tables -- I read it as it only being a back end table for which there was contention. –David-W-Fenton Oct 30 '10 at 0:10 add a comment| up vote 1 down vote accepted This is weird. I got this error message because there was no enough space in the Shared drive, I just removed 1GB of some unneccessary fi
role in maintain a large amount of data in a sequential way, it is the very important application for small to mid-sized enterprises and also used by many individual business owners for maintaining and running their valuable information. But sometime because of any minor or major corruption you cannot access the stored information from the access database, this is very dangerous situation for any because MS Access database corruption may harm its owner financially. There are lots of reasons available that may affect the components of accmdb file and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046344/error-3218-could-not-update-currently-locked-msaccess damaged it, once it gets corrupted then it display error message like: Error 3218 “Could not update; currently locked.” Error 3197 “The database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time.” Error 3260 “Couldn’t update; currently locked by user
+ Ask a Question Need help? Post your question and get tips & solutions from a community of 418,417 IT Pros & Developers. It's quick & easy. Access 2003 Error: 3218 Could not update; currently locked P: n/a stuart I have 2 users who ran into a problem with a data https://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/771582-access-2003-error-3218-could-not-update-currently-locked entry program (written in Access 2003). One user was keying into one of the forms when she got the message "ACCESS Error Number: 3218 Could not update; currently locked'. About the same time, another user was keying records into a 2nd form. Even though they were on different forms, they would have added records to the same table. The 2nd user had tried to add about 28 records, the first 13 successfully. She said that she did not get any type of error message that her remaining records were could not not being added (even though I have coded an error handler to trap errors). She only realized later that the last 15 records she keyed were never added to the table. There are about 3 main users of this application (a split database), each with their own copy of the front end database, all accessing the same back end database. There is no default record locking. The option to "Open databases using record level locking" is checked. First of all, is there any reason why user #2 would not get could not update an error message that her records were not being added? On another application, I've had a similar problem on a single user application that a particular field happened to be NULL when I attempted to add the record to the table. Access did not add the record to the table (which is correct), but it did not give me an error message. Is this normal Access behavior? If so, any clues on how to handle this situation? TIA, Stuart Feb 15 '08 #1 Post Reply Share this Question 6 Replies P: n/a Rich P >> Is this normal Access behavior? If so, any clues on how to handle this situation? << Yes - normal behavior for any system. Whenever you have multiple users entering data into the same table at the same time you are going to have collisions/write conflicts/dead locking... The way to handle this is to prevent users from entering data into the same table at the same time. But that is absurd! How would you get anything done? Easy - each user enters data into a local temp table. Then they take turns submitting their data to the main data table on the backend DB. This would require a flag on the main table when it is in use. For this flag what you can do is to add a flag table to the backend database. When a user is ready to submit their data your submit data procedure would check this flag table to see if anyone is using it - if not then copy their UserID to this table. When another user wants