Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Anyone know of a reliable way to convert m$ access data to openoffice base?
I tried and did not have positive results with the process.
Openoffice.org MSwindows and Openoffice.org for Linux had different
database structures when I tried. The tables converted somewhat on the
windows side but did not function on the Linux side.
They might have some solutions for compatibility from OS to OS. I tried
when the openoffice.org-base package first premiered.
The most success that I had was when exporting the tables to excel and
then exporting the spreadsheets to openoffice.org format. I stopped the
attempt since it seemed quite a bit more of a challenge than expected.
If anyone has met with success when trying to convert MSaccess DBs over
to Openoffice.org-base (windows-bound) and then over to Linux, I am
interested in this possibility also.
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you might want to check out...
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
Craig
Thanks! I bookmarked the link and might try to convert the mdb files
over to another database format. The challenge to outcome might be lower
and acceptable to net results.
Jim
