You can open an Access 97 file with Access 2007 but an Access 95 db would
need to be converted to Access 97 by Access 97 (possibly 2000, but I don't
remember if that was possible) before you could do that.
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"Gina Whipp" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Technog1,
>
> ANYTHING created after Access 95 will not open in Access 95 because of the
> file format change that happened with Access 97. The only thing that comes
> to mind is to upgrade but not sure if Access 2007 opens anything before
> 2000, haven't tried it.
>
> --
> Gina Whipp
>
> "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
> II
> "technog1" <sellputcall[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0ef33e24-ccb1-4b2c-94b4-c02847c6b78d[ at ]f3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
> >I am trying to open a .mdb file and ms-access (95) running on windows
> > xp pro
> > refuses to open it. (Yeah,its an old version, but its the only version
> > i have).
> > I get a "Unrecognized database format:D:\pathname-to-mdb file".
> >
> > I tried to open the file using perl and the odbc driver, and i still
> > get an
> > incompatible error.
> >
> > I am trying to figure out if i can use the right version of access/or
> > the
> > right version of the odbc driver, maybe i can salvage the file
> > somehow ???
> >
> > Are there tools out there to help resusitate this file ???
> > Even programatically, if i can pull out some/most of the records, it
> > would be great...
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated !!!
> >
> >
> > Here is dump of the header of the mdb file.
> > 0000000 \0 001 \0 \0 S t a n d a r d J e t
> > 0000020 D B \0 001 \0 \0 \0 265 n 003 b ` \t 302 U
> > 0000040 351 251 g r [ at ] ? \0 234 ~ 237 220 377 205 232 1 305
> > 0000060 y 272 355 0 274 337 314 235 c 331 344 303 237 F 373 212
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