We designed a custom application using Office Developer Tools '97 which
included a Run-time version of Access--- so it would not matter if our
customer even had any version of Access on their computer. The
application ran without problems on our customer's computer for 2-3
years. Then our customer bought a new computer and we had to reinstall
the application. Everything was ok for approximately 6 months until our
customer was "cleaning up" their system and began deleting files, and
the next time they went to open the application they got this message:
"You have selected a database created in a previous version of
Microsoft Office Access. You can convert or open the database. Either
action may take several minutes.
Then it gives two boxes Convert Data or Open Data.
Convert Data:
Convert the file to the default file format specified on the Advanced
tab of the Options dialog box under the Tools menu.
If you convert to Access 2000 you won't be able to open the file in
Access 97 or earlier; If you convert to Access 2002-2003 you won't be
able to open the file in Access 2000 or earlier.
OpenDatabase:
Open in Access, but maintain the original file format so that you can
still use the file in previous versions of Access. If you open in
Access you can view objects and modify records, but you can not make
design changes only in the previous version"
We reinstalled the appliation from the original CD and copied their
current MDB into the directory. The program has again run successfully
for over 2 months. Now the customer has the same error message and has
not been "cleaning up" their system.
Any ideas on why this periodically occurs?
Thank you!