Problem with Upgrade MS Access 2003 to Access 2007

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I'm working with a client who has an important MS Access 2003 file that he
can't open after upgrading from Access 2003 to Access 2007.

The Access file is password protected. Since the upgrade, any time someone
enters a login and password nothing happens ( no error message, and the file
is not opened ). Our goal is to be able to open and work with the file.

After reading the forum, I believed it was the workgroup file, so I checked
for and found the file "security.mdw", in the location C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Access. The file has a
timestamp of February 2008, so it is the correct one.

I tried calling the MS Access file from the MS dos prompt using the command:
"path to 2007 msaccess.exe" "path to mdb" /wrkgrp "path to secure mdw"
but still had the same problem. That is, we typed the username and password
into the file, but nothing happened.

I did go to the immediate window posting, and tried it out, doing the command
?SysCmd(acSysCmdGetWorkgroupFile) in MSAccess 2007 at the immediate window.
It returned null.

This has been a problem for my client for quite a while, as the Access file
contains important information that he needs to run his business. With this
information, could you tell us what I could do in order to get him going?

Thanks.







--
Carney Clegg
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