Cannot open any more databases error 3048

Hi Oliver,

According to Microsoft it is fixed with the Office build 14827.20192 or higher. I think I've not seen 3048 mentioned any more by people who installed the more current updates.

However, there have been several reports in different forums from people who say they still can't compact/repair or they experience Access crashes with the current builds. We've reported it to MSFT but it is difficult to clear what causes these problems.

Hi Karl,

We also encountered error 3048, cannot open more databases beginning of February.

We rolled back to the version before that and switched the updates off.

Is this bug fixed now?

Thanks

Oliver Burrell

Hi Kent,

It is delayed a bit because I've had too much "real" work and also wanted to wait for the outcome of the current bug wave (yes, it will be mentioned ;-). I have just started shooting. Producing the whole thing will probably take 10-14 days.

@Kark,

BTW, when is your next Access News Cast?

as if don't you have enought to talk about ; )

Thanks Karl,

Yep,

I recall when 365 went subscription and it took me days to figure out which plan I needed. At the time none of the Business plans included Access.

Making this task harder was that MVPs got theirs for free so they just went with the most expensive, as I ended up doing. E3.

Now there are 2 different flavours of E2 and the entire suite of plans is even more confusing to the novice.

Channel names have been subject to a rapid evolution of nomenclature.

Then consider Product ID, Version Number and Build Number (have I missed anything?)

Making this all harder is the number of, and changes to, the pages where MS, and specifically Access, posts information about new features, fixes, suggestions, which include pages mentioned in these posts and others.

As I mentioned, the 365 Admin center is blissfully ignorant of all these issues which suggests that 365 Admins (the people) are as well, and as we've seen, so are MS's own support people.

I've thought long and hard (well not so long, but hard) and decided that I'd like to see a series of links (better if it only needed to be one) in the Accounts / About page, in addtion the cringe worthy "Whats New" button, to take me to a web page with proper Release Notes (Features and Fixes) showing all current and previous versions.

That page could then have a link to other relevant pages like suggestions, This forum, Access Blog and any other relevant site for the 365 app it is launced from as well as 365 in general.

The Product Information on the Account form currently does tell you the Subscription Product (in my case Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise), the Version and Build. So it is reasonably aligned with the terminologies on the web sites but not entirely.

Now I don't expect developers to ever care about this stuff, but the Product Manager(s) for 365 and in this case Access should.