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

Hi Dan,

I installed the Access2Base extension and tried it but to no avail. 
Possibly your Access database was an .mdb rather than an .accdb?

Thanks for your time and attention.

mike

On 10/08/2014 07:09 AM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> 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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