Error 3401

[Claudette Hennessy]

I get "Cannot open a database created with a previous version of your
application" when I attempt to open older mdb files. Compact cannot open
them, nor can jetcomp.exe. These are simple databases created with a
previous version of Access, why can't they be opened?

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

Here are a couple of links which appear to deal with the problem you report:

ACC2000: Cannot Open an Access 97 Database in Access 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310804

ACC2000: Error Message When You Link Access 2.0 Tables
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;208419


hth,