Open office .mdb file

I am not clear why you are tying to use javascript instead of bash or python script. Could you please explain? I really need to recover these file,they represent several hundred hours of transcription from other sources.

Thanks for your assistance flipavon. Have you done a search on the forum before? Corrupted base files are an issue that is reported quite often. The "ASCII filter" options are a sign that OOo doesn't recognize the file's content as the format that should be found inside according to the file's extension. For OOo native formats this means that the zip archive.

Then you use the Access-toolkit for queries, forms and reports to work with the linked database linked rather than imported. In this case we use the Microsoft drivers to connect with Microsoft's Jet database engine and now we can use our Base tools for queries, forms and reports to work with the linked database.

Please, edit this topic's initial post and add "[Solved]" to the subject line if your problem has been solved. It has been considered as one of the competitors of MS Access. You can search on the Internet for online tools and websites that can be used to open a MDB file and view its contents.

There are many such online portals available. You will not need to download or install any application on your machine. You just need to look for an online MDB viewer tool and then you can upload your MDB file on the web page to view its contents.

It is to be noted that this will only help you in viewing the contents of the file and not edit or update it. But, everytime you would require viewing the contents, you will have to go online and upload the MDB file.

Also, you need to be cautious about the security of the MDB data. Microsoft Access is a database tool and. MDB file is a database file. So, you can use other database tools to open MDB files as well. After all, it is a database format file containing rows and columns. There is a wide range of tools that may be created to perform various database functions. See if you have any such database tools already installed on your machine and try to open the. There might be chances that your MDB file is corrupt.

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