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MBD created in 32 bit doesn't have any options to save it under File and no DataBase tool bar
I'm working in MS Office 365 32 bit. I have a database application that has an mdb extension. I can open it and I can see the components, ( forms, queries, tables, modules) but there is no save optio...
You don't have to "Save" anything. Just open it in 64-bit Access, and the code will be recompiled automatically. If you really want to, you could use /decompile to remove 32-bit code, but I believe this is automatic.
Of course, if you have 32-bit specific code (e.g. API declarations), you have some work to do.
Of course, if you have 32-bit specific code (e.g. API declarations), you have some work to do.
- If I attempt to open it in 64-bit Access I get the error message that states this database was created in 32 bit Access please open it with the 32 bit version of Access.
- Are you using the Access Runtime, instead of the full Access application, by any chance?
- That makes total sense, George, more so than my hunch that this was a compiled database. The OP will want to verify this is the full version of Access.
If you start the Runtime version of Access (confusingly also called msaccess.exe), there is indeed hardly any menu.
- I am assuming it is not an MDB then. Maybe a compiled MDE or the newer ACCDE format.
To test: on 32-bit Access create a very simple Hello Windows ACCDB (or download a template).
Open it on 64-bit Access. That works.
