Jon:
Your post is pretty unclear relative to what you might be trying to do. Why
in the world would you be interested in accessing an Access Temp file? (They
are normally created by Jet not Access itself.) But rules of thumb you
might want to consider:
1.) A temp file is just that a temp file, its not meant to be retrieved or
used externally by an application. An app that creates a temp file, creates
it for temporary storage of often just portions of the data it is working
with.
2.) Anytime a file is deleted, is space on the drive is marked as free.
Therefore the very next disc write could theoretically overwrite all or a
portion of that file, rendering much if not most of it useless even if it is
recovered, unless it is recovered immediately after it is deleted.
3.) To "undelete" a file, you can use certain utilities like Symantec's
norton disk utilities, or SysInternal's File undelete, but the longer you
wait (and we're talking minutes here) and have any disc activity, the
likelihood of a good undelete recovering the file grows dimmer and dimmer.
HTH
Steve Arbaugh
MS Access MVP
