microsoft ACCESS ERROR MESSAGE

Question

Error message: cannot open database created with previous version of your application.

Please provide instructions.

Thank you

Answer 1

When opening a database of an earlier version (.mdb format) in Microsoft Access version 2013 or later, you may encounter an error ‘Cannot open a database created with a previous version of your application.’

You can fix the error by converting the old database file format (.mdb) to the .accdb file format.

To work around this, Microsoft recommends opening the Access database (MDB) in Access 2007 or later versions and then saving it in the file format you can open in Access version 2013 or higher.

Follow the below link to perform the steps to convert the .mdb file to .accdb file format:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/convert-a-database-to-the-accdb-file-format-098ddd31-5f84-4e89-8f44-db0cf7c11acd#:~:text=mdb

Best Regards,

Suyash

Answer 2

Hi B, hope you're doing well. I’m Ian, and I’m happy to help you today.

What is the MS Access version that you are using and what is the previous version that you want to open?

This is a user-to-user support forum and I am a fellow user.

I hope this helps, but please let me know if you need anything else.