Error message attaching to tables in Access 97

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Johne

An access 97 application that is divided into two parts is
generating the following error message:

"the selected datafile version is [in] error and must be
version 4.62 or greater to attach . . . "


The application is divided into a user interface component
with multiple functions and a data repository with many
tables. Each peice of the application lives on a different
machine. Both pieces of the application are implemented
using Access 97. Each of the two applications exists as
..mdb files. In order for the user interface piece to work
one must attach to the tables in the data repository on the
other machine. In order to do this one enters the path of
the data repository into a text box which is part of one of
the display screens that is displayed when the user
interface component is run. After hitting the return key,
the error message is generated. This error message is not
new to us, however we have been able to work around the
error message, by "repairing and compacting" the data
repository. Then when one went to attach the tables a
second time, the error message went away. The new piece in
this puzzle is where the data repositoy lives. We copied it
onto a new Windows XP pro machine. It used to live on a
Windows ME machine. Since the introduction of the new XP
machine the error message does not go away after performing
the "repair and compact."

Any ideas would be great!

TIA

johne
 
That error message doesn't sound like anything Access would generate. I
suspect that the application has been built so that there are version
numbers on both the front-end and back-end. When the front-end opens, it
must check what version it is, and compare that to what version the back-end
is. You'll have to check the application's code to determine what's going on
or, if it's a vendor package, you'll need to check with the vendor.
 
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