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Topic: Can’t Open Web Wiz Forum 7.01 Database

Posted By: Coco Brown
Subject: Can’t Open Web Wiz Forum 7.01 Database
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 12:51pm

Hello,

I am currently using a copy of Web Wiz 7.01 for my website. I would like to know if I can go into Access to make changes to the structure of the database and what version of Access I would need. It refuses to open the DB and says that I will need a later model. It will be impossible to upgrade as my boss wants the forum to go live in two days.

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 12:55pm

Depends what version you downloaded. Back in 7.01 I think you had the choice between 97 and 2000 so just open it in access 2000 and it should work...

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Posted By: Coco Brown
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 1:36pm

Actually, I'm using Access 2003. Sorry I forgot to mention that

. The DB just might be corrupted, but OTOH the forum works fine. Thanks for your help.

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 2:03pm

I've been able to open the access db in Access 2003. You might want to ftp it to your pc and do a C&R before opening it.

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Posted By: Coco Brown
Date Posted: 30 September 2004 at 1:11pm

Thanks for your help. I suspect the file header was corrupted by an FTP client I was using a while back. It mangled the hex of the first line of the file, the line Access uses to identify what version an mdb was made in. All I could do was get a new forum db and migrate the info there.