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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...
I tried it before, but as you can see, the data are not organized at all. Can not ACCESS files be opened in a text editor like that?
You have the closest thing to an answer here. This is not a standard mdb file. We don't know what it is exactly. If you can retrieve the data, following Colin's suggestion of saving a copy as a .txt file, that's the closest you are probably going to get.
Please don't pursue this in both forums any longer as it's a waste of your time and ours to try to track it in two places.
I'm still not 100% convinced it is appropriate to try to extract data from a vendor's tool this way. They went to some trouble to obscure it by renaming it with the .mdb extension which probably suggests they don't anticipate their data being used outside their application. That said, you know what you can do now.
Please don't pursue this in both forums any longer as it's a waste of your time and ours to try to track it in two places.
I'm still not 100% convinced it is appropriate to try to extract data from a vendor's tool this way. They went to some trouble to obscure it by renaming it with the .mdb extension which probably suggests they don't anticipate their data being used outside their application. That said, you know what you can do now.
