Err Msg: "You can't carry out this action at the present time."

[STravis]

I have never experienced this error message before. I can
find no documentaion on this error message. Can anyone
point me to a reference?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I have never experienced this error message before. I can
find no documentaion on this error message. Can anyone
point me to a reference?

You could get this message for a number of legitimate reasons, whenever
you request an action in code that is syntactically valid but cannot be
performed at the moment. For example (and this is an off-the-cuff
example and may not even be correct), your code may use a DoMenuItem to
move to a new record, but the current record is dirty and can't be saved
for some reason, so you can't move now. You'd have to debug the code
that raises the error and consider what circumstances are preventing the
action from being carried out.

I believe you could also get this message as a result of corruption.
See Tony Toews' Corrupt MDB FAQ if you believe this may be the case:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm