Test my x.mdb (Access 2003?) please

[Michel Robert]

I have an *.mdb which I can't open with my Access97.
I'm 100% sure that the file is in good condition.
What I'm not sure about is whether this is indeed an Access DB.
If I could be sure that this is an Access DB, then I would buy the
required Access version.
I could email that DB (5 K) to somebody who has Access 2003 and he/she
could try to open the DB. If it works I'll be very happy.
Thanks in advance
Michel Robert
Please mention the above line (my name) in the subject line
la*********@evaluation.qc.ca

[Randy Harris]

You're certain that the file is in good condition, but don't know whether or
not it is an Access DB? Doesn't that strike you as being terribly
suspicious? I think you are going to need to be a little more creative than
that.

"Michel Robert" <la*********@evaluation.qc.ca> wrote in message
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I have an *.mdb which I can't open with my Access97.
I'm 100% sure that the file is in good condition.
What I'm not sure about is whether this is indeed an Access DB.
If I could be sure that this is an Access DB, then I would buy the
required Access version.
I could email that DB (5 K) to somebody who has Access 2003 and he/she
could try to open the DB. If it works I'll be very happy.
Thanks in advance
Michel Robert
Please mention the above line (my name) in the subject line
la*********@evaluation.qc.ca

[Salad]

Randy Harris wrote:

You're certain that the file is in good condition, but don't know whether or
not it is an Access DB? Doesn't that strike you as being terribly
suspicious? I think you are going to need to be a little more creative than
that.
Maybe yes/maybe no. I would think that if you attempted open a newer
version one would get an error message saying that the format is
unrecognized or something like that. The thing is it would not tell you
what the current file's version it is.

I created a db, db1.mdb. I entered from DOS
Type db1.mdb

Using Ctrl+S, I see that it says it is a Standard Jet DB. I would think
that in the header of the mdb there'd be a byte that indicates the
version of the database. If so, it'd be easy enough to open the MDB
with VBA Open/Close and read the byte/bytes that tell the version. If
someone knows where that is located, that could help the person.


"Michel Robert" <la*********@evaluation.qc.ca> wrote in message
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I have an *.mdb which I can't open with my Access97.
I'm 100% sure that the file is in good condition.
What I'm not sure about is whether this is indeed an Access DB.
If I could be sure that this is an Access DB, then I would buy the
required Access version.
I could email that DB (5 K) to somebody who has Access 2003 and he/she
could try to open the DB. If it works I'll be very happy.
Thanks in advance
Michel Robert
Please mention the above line (my name) in the subject line
la*********@evaluation.qc.ca

[user_5701]

Where did you get this .mdb file from? Try scanning it for viruses
first. 5kb seems too small to be a database file - I just created a
completly empty A97 database and it is about 60kb in size. Sounds
more like a virus that somebody put the extension of .mdb on. It may,
in fact, not be a database file alltogether.

What happens when you try to open it in A97? Any errors?

la*********@evaluation.qc.ca (Michel Robert) wrote in message news:<b3************************@posting.google.co m>...

I have an *.mdb which I can't open with my Access97.
I'm 100% sure that the file is in good condition.
What I'm not sure about is whether this is indeed an Access DB.
If I could be sure that this is an Access DB, then I would buy the
required Access version.
I could email that DB (5 K) to somebody who has Access 2003 and he/she
could try to open the DB. If it works I'll be very happy.
Thanks in advance
Michel Robert
Please mention the above line (my name) in the subject line
la*********@evaluation.qc.ca