Early version of Access

[pcb007]

Hello not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, if its not please accept my apologies. I wrote a program many years ago using VB3 and used the access database version 1.1. I no longer support this but in an effort to try and help a customer out i need to open up the database in Access, unfortunately my version of access is now office XP and when i try to open it i get the error that the operation is not supported for versions 1.1. Can anybody please advise me if its possible to open up the database using another method or another program, i only need to delete some records not alter the table structure in any way. Thanks in advance Paul

 

[LarrySteele]

Have you considered just linking to the tables? If you can link, then you should be able to delete the rows.

HTH,
Larry

 

[pcb007]

Just did a quick check on that and i indeed can see the data, but how do i save the changes back to the orginal database version 1.1. as i have linked the database into a new database (because thats what the help files told me to do Thanks

 

[LarrySteele]

The table links in your AccessXP file are just links or pointers to the tables in Access 1.1. When you change data in the linked table in AccessXP, you're actually changing the data in the Access 1.1 file.

HTH,
Larry

 

[pcb007]

Many many thanks for your help. That worked a treat