[thelist] Access 2003 "this file may not be safe..."

[Ken Schaefer]

You don't mention what version of Access you used to create the file.

If it was not Access 2003, then I suggest you goto Tools -> Database
Utilities -> Convert -> to Access 2000-2003 (or whatever that option
is). If the database was created in an older version of Access, you
may not be able to alter it in newer versions of Access until you
update it.

Otherwise, when did this problem start happening? And what did you
change just before that?

Cheers
Ken


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:53:28 -0500, Casey Crookston
<casey at thecrookstons.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with Access 2003 on XP.  When I try to use a database
> that I created (and nobody else altered) I get this message:
> 
> "This file may not be safe if it contains code that was intended to harm
> your computer.  do you want to open this file or cancel the operation?"
> 
> When I click "open" I am informed that it will be open as read-only.
> 
> Now, when I FIRST created the database, the error message told me I needed
> to install Jetpack 4.0 (or something like that) which I did.  I thought that
> would solve the problem... silly me!
> 
> I've googled this to death, found lot's of references to the error, but no
> fix that made sense.
> 
> Anyone dealt with this before?
> Casey