When I just attempted to open my ADOBE ALBUM software to download new
photos, I got the following error message:

"(Microsoft OBD driver manager)data source name not found and no
default driver specified"

I was then offered the option to recover this catalog--and catalog recovery failed.

What can I do to recover my photos?

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 21 Mar 2005 11:51 PST

Hi jwats,

Repair your catalog
1. Close Photoshop Album
2. Hold down the Control key as you restart Photoshop Album. Hold the
key down until you get the message: "Attempt to compact and recover
this catalog, then open again?"
3. Click OK. After Photoshop Album repairs the catalog you will get a
message that the repair completed successfully. Click OK again.
4. Your catalog will open.
5. Try importing your images again.
Newsgroups: adobe.photoshop.album.windows
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=3bb5b8ed.1%40webx.la2eafNXanI

If that doesn't help, try this:

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 contains core Data Access
components such as the Microsoft SQL Server? OLE DB provider and ODBC
driver.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c050fe3-c795-4b7d-b037-185d0506396c&DisplayLang=en

Please let me know how that goes,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by jwats-ga on 21 Mar 2005 12:24 PST

Unfortunately, the recovery option you mentioned-- which follows the
error screen does not work--I get a message that a problem was
encountered during recovery

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 21 Mar 2005 18:22 PST

Hi jwats,

If you are hesitant to download Microsoft Data Access Components
(MDAC) 2.8 , you can read about it at the following link. There's a
good chance that installing it will solve the problem you are having.

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Installation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmdac/html/data_mdacinstall.asp

Regards,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by jwats-ga on 22 Mar 2005 08:05 PST

I attempted to download MDAC 2.8 and after the download got an error
message that all of MDAC 2.8 was already contained in Windows XP
professional--So I could not add the new drivers