[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Base and recognised 'xbase' file formats

Base supports one single type of file which is *.odb.
You never "open" any database in Base. A database may have gigabytes. 
You connect databases to a database document, some driver requests data 
snippets (row sets) from the external database and shows the requested 
data in the user interface. Even the native type of database works like 
this since the contained database gets extracted into a temporary 
directory before any content is delivered by a database driver to the 
Base GUI.
dBase always used to be a database in a directory. Thus you connect a 
new Base document to a directory which contains *.dbf files.
In Writer or Calc hit F4, right-click the example database 
"Bibliography" and choose "Edit database file". This loads an odb 
document. Look at the status bar. It shows the connection type "dBase" 
together with the location of the connected dBase directory.
No matter what file you open in Base, it will always be the odb 
container format.


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