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EslamElbyaly
Copper Contributor
Jun 05, 2022

Opening a .mdb file

Hi. I havea .mdb file that I need to open. When I try to open it using MS access 2003 or 2007, I get "unrecognized database format.." error. I do not know what version was used to create that file. I...
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isladogs
MVP
Jun 06, 2022

tsgiannis 

Just as an experiment I used your utility to successfully extract all the data from the Access 1.0 version of the Northwind database

It took a bit of time but seemed to work perfectly. 

Excellent. Very impressive

 

 

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    tsgiannis
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 06, 2022

    Interesting...I think the oldest I had was '97 ...but 1.0... !!
    For the author it seems that once upon a time was a converter that could convert Access from 2.0 and up to 2003
    This tools is long long gone but thankfully Internet Archive (after a good search) still has it
    https://web.archive.org/web/20060216154605/http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/c/cdc5d70c-25ab-42fb-974f-1514dc48ee30/Acc2Conv.exe
    Test it and report back If this fails I guess it's corrupt and you need to check some of the Access specialized people to restore it.

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      isladogs
      MVP
      Jun 06, 2022
      I remember using that many years ago.
      Just tried to install it in Win 10 (using compatibility settings then in WinXP but both attempts failed

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