Trying to use Access 2000 databases in Access 2003

[jathiels]

We use two very simple (no macros, etc.) but important databases in our
office. One was created in Access 2000, and the other was converted to
Access 2000 from an earlier version. When we try to open either file in
Access 2003, the program essentially stops responding.

We are sometimes able to open the files after restarting Access, enabling
the databases under Help/About Access and restarting Access again. We've set
the security level to "low" to discontinue the security prompts.

Is there any way to convert these two files to the 2003 format? If not, is
there some other workaround? Thanks for your help!

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

There's really no reason to convert them. Access 2003 actually uses the
Access 2000 file format by default.

You'll have to give more details about what problem(s) you're encountering.
"essentially stops responding" doesn't really tell us much.

 

[jathiels]

That's good news. Thanks for your help.

I launch the program, select the file to open, get the hourglass and that's
it. I've left it like that for several minutes to an hour, but nothing
further happens. Occasionally, it will open the file as expected, but not
usually.

It's possible that something went south during the upgrade process. I've
tried uninstalling via the Control Panel and reinstalling the upgrade. How do
you completely uninstall Office, including registry entries?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

I believe there is some sort of utility that does the rest of the cleanup,
but I can't remember what it's called, and a quick search at MSDN didn't
turn up anything useful.

You might try asking in microsoft.public.office.setup

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

You can't. Office is now considered too tightly integrated
with Windows, so a 'complete' uninstall would disable windows,
(Like uninstalling IE...) so the tool has been withdrawn.

(david)