If you don't know the password, and it is properly secured, then there is
not much you can do. Try joining your default workgroup and see if it will
open. If not you will need to pay for a "cracker" utility or service.
There is no magical back door to get into a properly secured database. If
there were, what good would the security features be?
<shrug> Join the MDW. Log on as a user with Adminstrative privileges
to the database. Reset the security so that the user Admin has full
privileges and no password.
If you can't do this... you're stuck. That's why the security is
there, to keep people who don't have the password OUT.
<shrug> Join the MDW. Log on as a user with Adminstrative privileges
to the database. Reset the security so that the user Admin has full
privileges and no password.
Open Access, without opening the database. Under Tools... Security,
select the "Workgroup Manager" option. This will let you Join a
"workgroup file" - normally, it will be the same name as the name of
the database, though the developer could have called it anything.
You will still need a username and valid password in order to open the
database. If you do not have a valid username/password, then you
CANNOT open the database. Again... that's what security is FOR, to
prevent people (and you might be one of those people!!) who aren't
authorized (by being given a password) to open the database.
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