Unrecognized format

[Mark A. Sam]

Hello,

I packaged an A2007 database and installed it on a client's machine with the
runtime. A couple days ago I did a test install on another machined, and
everything went well. This time I tried to open the DB and got an
Unrecorgnized Format message and another suggesting that the database
version might be later than the version of Access or the VBA module mighrt
be corrupted. On the icon I put the path to the Access runtime, which I
believe is in an Office12 subfolder of Office. I got the same error
message. Then I copied the database's .accde file onto the clients machine
and tried to run that with the same result. I know that file is good,
becuase I opened it and changed some options before packaging it.

Thank you for any help and God Bless,

Mark A. Sam

 

[Mark A. Sam]

The problem was that I used a .accde file. When creating a package, use a
..accdb file.

 

[boblarson]

That may have worked for you, but that isn't the problem. You can use an MDE
with a package and runtime, but there is an issue if you have SP1 installed
because there is no update yet for the runtime.
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[Mark A. Sam]

Bob, That must be it then, because I do have SP1 installed. In fact,
installing SP1 cured a problem I had with the database crashing thenever I
closed a table or query from design view. Installing the Developer
extensions brought the problem back.