Help with micorsoft acess

Question

hi i am having a bit of triuble actaully i have a very old cd actaully having an apllication of viewing students in 1987 done in  2003 Acess and it came in cd with .mdb file and a ui to display the data properly but apparently i want to edit this file and i am having trouble doing that it says that i donot have permission and the error number is 3033 if you google search it....so i read a few they all are talking about having some .mdw file i am not sure even though i found one called system.mdw but not sure how to use it ....please help me with this issue thanks

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D.Boy

Answer 1

 

Good morning! This forum is for helping customers interoperating with Windows via our open protocol documentation. Your issue does not appear to be related to our protocol documentation. Nevertheless, I have below provided some information that may be of help.

System.mdw is a 'Workgroup Information File'. This is used for a secure Access database. It appears that you will need to create a new Workgroup Information file - which will require you to re-enter all the details of the original Workgroup Information file, the user accounts, and the passwords. Hopefully this information is available to you.

Error 3033 means 'Wrong parameter type given'.

Here are some links that should be helpful for using a .mdw file (Access 2007):

Set or change Access 2003 user-level security in Access 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA101662271033.aspx

Command-line switches for Access
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA101666051033.aspx?pid=CH100621861033

/wrkgrp  <workgroup information file>
- Starts Access by using the specified workgroup information file.
Applies to Access 2002-2003 and earlier databases only.

These two KB articles have additional information on .mdw files, against Access 2002-2007:

You receive error messages when you convert the workgroup information (.mdw) file in Access 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/824258

You receive a "You are trying to open a read-only database" error message when you open a database that was created in an earlier version of Access in Access 2002, Access 2003 or Access 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/324666

Here are several links that should be of help to you in regards to obtaining technical support:

o Help & Support Home' at http://support.microsoft.com/ (there are 'Self Support Options' available on this page).

o 'Select a Product for Assistance' at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/assistsupport

o The Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/search/

Here is a link to the Access developer forum:

Access Community
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905410.aspx

Regards,
Bill Wesse
MCSE, MCTS / Senior Escalation Engineer, US-CSS DSC PROTOCOL TEAM

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Escalation Engineer