I'm a relative Access newbie that recently inherited an access database that was built in 2005. It is stored on a networked location at our corporate headquarters in PA (I'm in CA). At the time, the database was extremely bloated and inaccessible from across the country, but seemed to work for the local users OK. Since we needed to access the data from CA, I split, updated, and compacted the database into a much more manageable size, and it has been working pretty well for about a year.
The issue I have now is that often times, although users have insisted they are out of the database (and even verified through their task managers that no instances of msaccess.exe are running), the locking files won't go away, and I am unable to maintain or work on the database exclusively. This has also coincided with more frequent instances of "Unrecognized database format" and "Access has determined that your database is in an inconsistent state" type errors.
I'm wondering if any of you have had similar issues or what the potential causes may be. We have already investigated whether all users have delete permissions on the server, and they do.