i'm a laywer and have recently fired a programmer who worked at our office. he was the person who maintained our ms access (clients) db. i think he protected the db at user level protection and encrypt it because i cant read, change or do anything about the tables. The message error says i have no permission to do anything. There is no password and i can't import or export the db. When I starts, the user looks like "administrator". there is no admin on the user or group lists but when i try to add it, a message says that already have one admin added. How can I solve this problem? thanks .. Percy Castanho - Brazil.