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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

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Date Created
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Last Updated
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Short Desc
Specifying a path you may sometimes spell it wrong or add to many characters or back slashes to your address, this will cause the 80004005 error.
Details
When you specify a physical path to your database, make sure that you have it written out as: g:\yourpage\file.mdb
If not, then it will cause the 80004005 error that we have here.

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] '(unknown)' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides.

file.asp, line 53
Recreate Issue
In this following code, we have added in another folder, which will cause this error.

<%
MyDB_DB = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=g:\inetpub\wwwroot\sitename\1\data\MyDB.mdb"
%>
Resolve Issue
To resolve this issue, make sure that the path to your database is correctly spelled, and does not have multiple back slashes \\ in a row and has the right folder path.

<%
MyDB_DB = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=g:\inetpub\wwwroot\sitename\data\MyDB.mdb"
%>

The path in the Recreate above shows the folder \1\
To where here in the Resolve we do not have the folder.

Make sure that there is no extra folders or \\ in your path.

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