Cathy wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Some thoughts:
Will the Sample Database open in your Legacy 6 installation or do you
need to uninstall and reinstall Legacy 6?
I can open the Sample Database and another family database.
If the Sample Database opens OK, try restoring your Desktop file on the
floppies in Legacy 6 (or is it a copy of the database rather than a
backup?) If it is copy, make a backup of your Legacy database on your
desktop and restore it on the laptop.
The original floppies were a backup of the desktop (Legacy 5, last build
before Version 6) I have the backup floppies from the desktop, but since
I can't open the correct file on the laptop, how can I restore. Don't I
need the "File" dropdown to select "Restore"? If there's another way, I
don't know of it.
You don't say what build of Legacy 5 you were using. Depending on what
build of Legacy 5 you are using, you would have to allow Legacy to do a
database conversion as the database structure has changed. The structure
for the final build of Legacy 5 and Legacy 6 are the same.
Let us know if that helps,
Cathy
At 10:17 21/09/2005, you wrote:
In preparation for a trip I backed up my Legacy 5.0 Desktop file to
floppies and then restored those files to Legacy 5.0 on my Laptop. The
file opened fine once! Now, after deleting Legacy 5.0 and installing
Legacy 6.0 on the laptop, the file still won't open. I get this
message: "Error opening database. Unrecognized database format
'C\Legacy\Data\Pallai.fdb'. Would you like to try it again?"
Obviously, when I try again, I get the same message. How can I get the
Laptop database to open? I'm not installing Version 6 on the desktop
until I resolve the laptop problem for fear of messing the desktop up.
If a solution is to delete some data files, I need to know just how to
find them and do the job.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Jerry
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