Locked out of database

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Pete Rothery

Not sure what happened but get a message saying "database has been converted
from a prior version of Access by using DAO compactdatabase and is now in a
partially converted state."
It says I should be able to import tables into a new data base but when I
try this it just gives the same message about converting and the data base
just doesn't open.
Please help because lots at stake, have to do a report based on these tables
so am waiting with anticipation!!!x
 
Hi Pete,

Usually this means you are opening an earlier version of Access in a new
version. Make a copy of the database so you don't further damage your
original. Go ahead and open it and it should ask you if you want to convert
to a newer version or something like that. Go ahead and convert. If this
doesn't happen, try importing into a newly created database and when you are
ask to convert go ahead and convert then. Outside of that, I can't say I
would know what's wrong as I only have that problem as I mentioned in the
beginning.

Hope this helps!
 
You're quite welcome Pete, glad I could help!

Could you do me a favor please? If that helped you could you please mark it
as such. This way if someone else has that problem they will see this worked
for you.

Thanks Buddy and have a great day!!!!
 
Stockwell43 said:
Could you do me a favor please? If that helped you
could you please mark it as such. This way if someone
else has that problem they will see this worked
for you.

He just did "mark it that it helped him" by posting his response to you here
in the newsgroup. The "marking" you describe is only available from/to the
online user interface you used, and a relatively small minority of the users
of this newsgroup access it via the online user interface. By replying to
you, he's indicated to all users that it was helpful, not just the ones
using the online UI.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
I basically meant to mark it "Yes" that it was helpful so the green checkmark
would appear so when others are searching for the same issue they can sort it
by answered questions. Why waste time going through every posting if it
didn't help? I didn't see the checkmark, but I am aware that I have helped
him based on his response.
 
I basically meant to mark it "Yes" that it was helpful so the green checkmark
would appear so when others are searching for the same issue they can sort it
by answered questions. Why waste time going through every posting if it
didn't help? I didn't see the checkmark, but I am aware that I have helped
him based on his response.

Stockwell, you're making the (very reasonable, given the way Microsoft
presents themselves) assumption that everyone sees the green checkmark because
everyone is using the Microsoft webpage.

That assumption is WRONG. This is NOT a webpage. This is NOT a blog.

The microsoft webpage is one of *many* available interfaces to the text based
Usenet newsgroups, a subset of which are hosted by Microsoft.

Most of us who volunteer here find the webpage slow, difficult to use, and
overburdened with bells and whistles. I for one use a newsreader named Agent
to connect to the news server msnews.microsoft.com, and see the *content* of
messages. I don't see the little blue MVP icon by my name, I don't have
pushbuttons for "answered" and the like.

Many people who ASK questions also come in from other venues, so they do not
have the option of checking the checkbox either.

A few folks at Microsoft are rumbling again about making the web-based
interface mandatory and shutting down the text-based NNTP newsgroups. They are
hearing loud and clear from the MVP's that doing so will drastically cut the
number of helpful replies to their customers' questions, because a lot of us
will simply cease using the forums if compelled to use (at least the current)
web interface.
 
I'm sorry I did not make myself clear, but John explained the reasoning
behind my reply. I use a newsreader, not the online interface, and there is
no place to mark "Yes" and no "green checkmark"... Unless the person who
asked the question used the same online interface that you used, he CANNOT
comply with your request.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 

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