How to Recover Deleted Access Database Files on Windows and Mac?

Have you lost or accidentally deleted Microsoft Access Database files? Wondering how to recover access files? Worry no more.. download Remo File Recovery Software, a specially designed office file recovery tool .

Written by John Harris / Approved by Praneeth / Updated on July 03, 2025

Recover Deleted Microsoft Access Database File From Windows and Mac

Microsoft Access is a database management system . The Access file has extensions such as .mdb (Microsoft Office Access 2003 and earlier) and .accdb (Microsoft Office Access 2007). It can perform repetitive tasks, which can be automated through macros with point-and-click options. You can place a database on a network and have multiple users share and update data without overwriting each other's work.

However, you may unintentionally delete one of your Access files which you have just spent a good deal of time working on. Won't it be a very painful job to recreate your lost Microsoft database file all over again? Don't be tense; you don't need to recreate them. MDB files and ACCDB files can be easily recovered using reliable recovery software. Remo Recover is the software that is efficient enough to recover your deleted Microsoft Access database files.

How To Recover Deleted Microsoft Access Database Files?

Method 1: Recover Deleted Microsoft Access Database Files From Recycle Bin

If your deleted Access files were earlier saved locally, your Documents folder, in the Desktop, or anywhere within your system. Those deleted files might reside in your system's Bin folder.

Here’s how you can find the deleted Access files in the Bin folder and recover them.

  1. Go to the Bin folder, usually located on your Desktop.
  2. Find the Access files- after you have located them, select the deleted Access file(s), right-click, and click on the Restore button from the options menu.
  3. The restored Microsoft Access files will get restored back to the same location from where they were deleted earlier.

You can try the next solution if you have not found the deleted files in the Recycle Bin or saved a backup in OneDrive.

Method 2: Recover Deleted Microsoft Access Database Files From One Drive Backup

Microsoft lets its user save their files in a OneDrive account. Suppose you have saved copies of your Microsoft Access Database files in the Cloud. I recommend you restore the backup database files.

How To Restore Access Database backup files from OneDrive Account?

  1. Sign in to your Microsoft OneDrive account using your credentials.
  2. Every file or folder you have saved on OneDrive Cloud storage will be displayed on your screen.
  3. Find and select the saved Access database files.
  4. Click on the Download button in the toolbar on your screen.
  5. The Access database files will get saved in the Downloads folder as Zip files; extract the files and save them in any location of your choice.

Method 3: Recover Microsoft Access Database Files Using Remo File Recovery

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Steps To Recover Deleted Microsoft Access Database Files Using Remo File Recovery Software

Download, install, and launch Remo File Recovery software on your Windows or Mac PC.

Step 1: Select the Folder or the Drive from where you wish to restore deleted access database file.

Launch the Remo Recover tool to recover deleted Access files

Step 2: Click on Scan and wait till the recoverable files are displayed. When the Quick Scan process is finished, the software will enter Deep Scan mode automatically. You will see a list of recovered files in Dynamic Recovery View.

Recovered access files after scanning the drive

Step 3: Select the required access database files and preview by double-clicking on the file.

select the Access database files to recover and save

Step 4: If you cannot find the access database files click on Advanced Filter. Add file type, file signature or modified data, the tool will do the work for you.

Remo Recover Advanced filter to add file type, modified data to sort in recovered results

Step 5: Browse and save the recovered Microsoft access database file on a storage drive. Click on Recover.

Save the recovered Access database file to the specified drive or folder

You have safely recovered the Access Database files deleted or lost. You can also try using the Microsoft Windows File Recovery Tool, Previous Versions, and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Run the Remo File Recovery application on your computer; once the files that can be recovered from your drive are displayed, filter for .accdb and .mdb file formats and recover the displayed files.

To prevent such human errors, go to the Remo Recover application, select the location, and scan for previously stored database files. In this way, you can get back the accidentally deleted files.

Remo is very effective when it comes to the recovery of a specific file format. As the software can recover more than 500+ file types, filtering the recoverable data display screen with only one type of format, i.e., .accdb, speeds up the recovery process. Hence, this makes Remo a very efficient software for recovering access database files.

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