Opening 1.x database

[Guest]

I have a client that has Access 2000. There is an old Access database in 1.x
format. Anyone have any suggestions of how to open this?

 

[Tony Toews]

I have a client that has Access 2000. There is an old Access database in 1.x
format. Anyone have any suggestions of how to open this?

Do you want to read the data? If so you should be able to link to the
tables from A2000.

If you want to convert it then you Access 97 will work. I don't
recall if A2000 will convert an A1.x MDB but presumably it won't as
you've already tried it.

Tony
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[John Vinson]

I have a client that has Access 2000. There is an old Access database in 1.x
format. Anyone have any suggestions of how to open this?

You'll need to "cascade" up the ladder of versions. IIRC you can open
1.1 databases in 2.0, and 2.0 databases in Access95/97, and I know you
can import Access97 databases into 2000. Any Forms and Access Basic
code in the old database will import... but may require quite a bit of
work to get them running correctly, a lot's changed in the 10 years or
so since that database was new!

If you cannot find anyone with old versions of the program sitting
around, let me know at jvinson <at> WysardOfInfo <dot> com; I've got
them all installed and could at least migrate the data for you.


John W. Vinson[MVP]