Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

     There is an extension that should help you. Download it from the 
LibreOffice Extensions website:
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/access2base

About a year ago or so, I downloaded an earlier version and was able to 
access a Access database with it.

Dan

On 10/08/2014 06:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find
> some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help.
>
> Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so
> well.  They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other
> products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to'
> keep buying into their products.
>
> Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to
> move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily.  They
> also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe
> and reliable and don't perform so well either.
>
> So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people
> just quickly trying out alternatives.  They can't seem to compete on
> quality or in "fair markets"
>
> However people have been able to migrate their databases out of Access and
> into Base.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> On 8 October 2014 10:48, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Le 07/10/2014 20:46, m. nease a écrit :
> >
> > > I'd like to do some work on Access databases (.accdb files) but haven't
> > > been able to access(!) them using Base (and have no MS OS or MS
> > > Office--happily).  Is this possible?
> > To assist in migration, also check out this Windows-only, GPL tool :
> >
> > http://mdbdoc.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
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