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    Property Not Found error

    Hi,
    Just started getting 'property not found' errors
    when updating anything in Access this morning.
    Have never gotten that error before. I tried
    compacting and repairing the database. The errors are still popping up.
    Any other suggestions to try before having to resort


    to a back-up?

    Thanks,
    Keith

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    I suggest you step through the code and see where it's raising the error and post that line. It could be that code is trying to assign a value to a database property that doesn't exist by default, or to a custom property that is handled by Property Let and Property Get statements.
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    Do you have option explicit declared in all your modules? Does your code compile?
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    There are reports of a bug in the latest Office update, v2204 I think it was. If you have that, you may try on a computer that doesn't have it, or revert to the previous version.
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    DLookup Syntax and others http://access.mvps.org/access/general/gen0018.htm
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    Hi,
    Thanks to all for your replies! The error message is not showing
    up anymore this morning! Didn't change anything! Also, we are not
    getting Windows updates, because of a prior error caused by
    a Windows update. So that wasn't the issue. I wonder if IT had re-booted the network
    drive we are accessing the database. Or something else may have caused it?
    A $2 mystery. The error is a vague one - could not find any real reason as to what causes it. Have been running
    an Access database pretty much flawlessly for over 15 years. Keith

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    The suspect is not a Windows update, it's an Office update. Are you on O365?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithK View Post
    Hi,
    Just started getting 'property not found' errors
    when updating anything in Access this morning.
    Have never gotten that error before. I tried
    compacting and repairing the database. The errors are still popping up.
    Any other suggestions to try before having to resort
    to a back-up?

    Thanks,
    Keith
    They seemed to have just fixed it. Now my databases have no more of these errors.

    Yes, I got this error too and a whole lot more. Someone blogged about it here. I got all those errors mentioned, plus "automation" errors, "can't find the field referred to in your expression," etc. My code that had been working for years suddenly caused errors that had nothing to do with anything. And they were untrappable errors too. They popped up after I closed all forms, with all code executions already ended. I was completely in the dark, and I was extremely lucky to locate two lines of code that triggered two of those errors -- and both had to do with subforms and the Recordset object. I remarked those out or avoided using Recordset, and that particular error went away.

    This is not the first time that mysterious errors or issues occurred in MS 365 apps. Make sure you have adequate backups. If you have to use a backup for testing (such as in this situation), make a backup OF THAT backup, then use the 2nd backup for testing.

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    I meant to say that we are not getting more Office
    updates, not Windows updates.
    We are one O365, version 16.0.14701.20226
    (the version after this one caused problems, so
    we reverted back to this one.). Still don't know why
    we got those 'property not found' errors. But, we are
    no longer seeing them. Keith

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    DLookup Syntax and others http://access.mvps.org/access/general/gen0018.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by Minty View Post
    That's fascinating info, but disconcerting. Instead of having to ask a non-disclosure guy from Microsoft to explain, we need DEFINITE PUBLIC DISCLOSURE when something like this happens so we won't be kept in the dark for 24 hours.

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