OPENING EROR

[yoelpa]

I recieve the following eror when i try to open a database
" The current user dosen't have permission to convert or enable this database"

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[tails]

Firstly check your access to the file with your administrator, if you are working for a business. Users of a system only have certain rights to files and if you dont have the correct rights to files and folder, you cant access them, or if you can access them you can't change, or modify the files.

 

[mdmilner]

file access

Yes, I'd agree. It definately appears to be an access rights related message, not something specific to Access.

One tip though - access creates a ldb file in the same directory as the database, by default. The ldb file is an active list of who is in the database and accessing what (it's how access manages record locking). In order to even open the database, you *must* have more than merely read access to the folder. You must have r+w access.

I think you can work around this requirement with a frontend/backend setup - also called a split database. This is where all the forms, queries & reports are in a 'client' copy while the datatables are in the backend (server copy).

MIke