Unlocking an Access MDE file

[Guest]

Could somebody supply me or point me to code that will unlock an MDE database
file so as to have access to my code. You see, I lost my original unlocked
mdb file.

 

[Rick Brandt]

Could somebody supply me or point me to code that will unlock an MDE
database file so as to have access to my code. You see, I lost my
original unlocked mdb file.

An MDE does not "Lock" the source code. The source code is *removed* when
the MDE is created. There is no way to get it back.

 

[Alex Dybenko]

you can something get from MDE:
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2004/10/access-qbuilt-reverse-engineers-mde.html
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/01/more-staff-to-convert-mde-to-mdb.html

 

[Jeff Conrad]

in message:

Could somebody supply me or point me to code that will unlock an MDE database
file so as to have access to my code. You see, I lost my original unlocked
mdb file.

Here is a past post of mine on this issue:

The queries and macros are natively importable from mde's into a new
database.

You can import all the forms and reports at one time using Serge
Gavrilov's free tool "MDE forms/reports extractor v1.1".
http://accesstools.narod.ru/.

Another link to try:
http://www.everythingaccess.com/tutorials.asp?ID=1

And another option:
http://www.eurodownload.com/download-software/5691/Access-MDE-Unlocker.html

More information here:
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/faq.html#NotImpossibleToConv

 

[David C. Holley]

I would HIGHLY recommend finding the nearest Irish Pub and having
SEVERAL pints before reading on...

Once the MDE is created is can't be cracked open. If you've lost the
original mdb file, you're only option is to start from scratch.

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

I haven't lost any of my .MDB's yet (touch wood), but I'll gladly take
the irish pub suggestion anytime

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You mean your name is actually Nikos O'Yannacopoulos? <g>

 

[David C. Holley]

And you're Greek! That's disgusting to think that you'd take a pub over
a taverna. At least promise me you'll be ordering ouzo.

David H

 

[David C. Holley]

That is ridiculous(sp), its Nikos McYannacopoulos of the clan
McYannacopoulas.

Slainte

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

That would be Scottish, David. Do they have Scottish Pubs? (Well, I guess
they do in Scotland!

My father used to tell a silly joke about Timoshenco being an Irish name. I
forget most of it now, but the punch line was ... Tim O'Shea and Co!

 

[David C. Holley]

So we'll just pretend that he went through Ellis Island and the
Immigration staff shortend his name from Nikos O'Yannacopoulos to 'Patty'.

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

And you're Greek! That's disgusting to think that you'd take a pub over
a taverna. At least promise me you'll be ordering ouzo.

Sorry, I'm not ordering ouzo in an Irish Pub!!! Would you order bourbon
in a russian bar?

I live in a place with several other buildings in between tavernas, none
of which is an Irish pub, I regret to say, so that's more appealing
conceptually... I can't remember the last time I was in an Irish pub,
but I can tell you I've been to a taverna three times in the past week -
which probably explains some of my answers here

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

I'll take any prefix as long as the pubs that go with it are worth it!
After all, what difference does it make? Nobody will be able to
pronounce it anyway, prefix or no prefix, four pints down the road!

 

[David C. Holley]

A real Greek would never find himself in an Irish Pub to begin with.
(Unless it was to teach the non-Greeks a lesson or two.)

 

[David C. Holley]

HEY NIKKI!

I'll take any prefix as long as the pubs that go with it are worth it!
After all, what difference does it make? Nobody will be able to
pronounce it anyway, prefix or no prefix, four pints down the road!

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

A real Greek would never find himself in an Irish Pub to begin with.

Why's that? And how come you know so much on Greeks?

 

[David C. Holley]

Because my mother bred with a non-Greek and I've been suffering the
shame of it all ever since.