How to suppress the conversion warning dialog box

[Alex AU]

Dear all,

When I used Access 2003 to convert a Access 97 database to Access 2000 or above format, it will pop up a dialog box saying "After you have converted this file to Access 2000 File format, the new file cannot be shared with Access 97 users."

Can I disable this dialog box from appearing? Since I use a batch file to upgrade the Access 97 databases in a folder, it will halt the operation and need users to intervene to for each successful conversion.

Thanks a lot.



Regards,

Alex AU

 

[Tony Toews]

When I used Access 2003 to convert a Access 97 database to Access 2000 or above format, it will pop up a dialog box saying "After you have converted this file to Access 2000 File format, the new file cannot be shared with Access 97 users."

Can I disable this dialog box from appearing? Since I use a batch file to upgrade the Access 97 databases in a folder, it will halt the operation and need users to intervene to for each successful conversion.

Try Michka's convert utility at www.trigeminal.com. It doesn't give
you the dialog box.

Note that you can also clean up the references programmatically once
you've done the conversion.

Tony
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[Alex AU]

Thanks Tony,

I'll give that a try.

Regards,

Alex AU

 

[Guest]

How to suppress the Convert/Open Database dialog box when you open an Access
97 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824260

(david)

Dear all,

When I used Access 2003 to convert a Access 97 database to Access 2000 or
above format, it will pop up a dialog box saying "After you have converted
this file to Access 2000 File format, the new file cannot be shared with
Access 97 users."

Can I disable this dialog box from appearing? Since I use a batch file to
upgrade the Access 97 databases in a folder, it will halt the operation and
need users to intervene to for each successful conversion.

Thanks a lot.



Regards,

Alex AU

 

[Alex AU]

Dear David,

Thanks for your information. However, this can only suppress the dialog when
opening an older version of mdb.

What I am looking for is to suppress the dialog box after converting an old
mdb to 2000 format.

I use the command line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.exe" "D:\Access97.mdb"
/convert "D:\Access2000.MDB"

to convert the mdb format. After the conversion finished, it will has a
dialog box saying that

"After you have converted this file to Access 2000 File Format, the new file
cannot be shared with Access 97 users."

I would like to suppress this dialog box as I need to batch convert the mdb
from 97 to 2000 format.

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Alex AU


| How to suppress the Convert/Open Database dialog box when you open an
Access
| 97 database
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824260
|
| (david)
|
| | Dear all,
|
| When I used Access 2003 to convert a Access 97 database to Access 2000 or
| above format, it will pop up a dialog box saying "After you have converted
| this file to Access 2000 File format, the new file cannot be shared with
| Access 97 users."
|
| Can I disable this dialog box from appearing? Since I use a batch file to
| upgrade the Access 97 databases in a folder, it will halt the operation
and
| need users to intervene to for each successful conversion.
|
| Thanks a lot.
|
|
|
| Regards,
|
| Alex AU
|
|

 

[Sanjib Biswas]

Hi Alex,

You may want to check the MS knowledge base webpage
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304318

Regards
Sanjib