Microsoft Jet 4.0 is no longer bundled with some versions of Windows. This means that unless Microsoft Office Access is installed on the computer, we cannot open MS Access files. This is easy to fix, just bundle the redistributable driver for it. It can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255
Hi Lionel, What's the status of this bug/enhancement? Assuming it's still relevant, could you please move it to NEW and change it to a (confirmed) EasyHack? Thanks! (Side Note: What's the license on the driver?)
(In reply to comment #1) > What's the status of this bug/enhancement? Assuming it's still relevant, Yes, it is relevant. > could you please move it to NEW Done. > change it to a (confirmed) EasyHack? My understanding is that it becomes a Easyhack, as opposed to a ProposedEasyHack when someone has checked there is no hidden bad surprise. This has not happened. This needs someone with a clue with Microsoft Windows. > (Side Note: What's the license on the driver?) Need to check in the download. Probably something similar to the msvc redistributables we already bundle?
In order to limit the confusion between ProposedEasyHack and EasyHack and to make queries much easier we are changing ProposedEasyHack to NeedsDevEval. Thank you and apologies for the noise
Adding self to CC if not already on
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (needsDevEval) [NinjaEdit]
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Still relevant today. We don't bundle Jet 4.0.
Could https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 help? (see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97579#c16)
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Dear Lionel Elie Mamane, To make sure we're focusing on the bugs that affect our users today, LibreOffice QA is asking bug reporters and confirmers to retest open, confirmed bugs which have not been touched for over a year. There have been thousands of bug fixes and commits since anyone checked on this bug report. During that time, it's possible that the bug has been fixed, or the details of the problem have changed. We'd really appreciate your help in getting confirmation that the bug is still present. If you have time, please do the following: Test to see if the bug is still present with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ If the bug is present, please leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice. If the bug is NOT present, please set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED-WORKSFORME and leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice. Please DO NOT Update the version field Reply via email (please reply directly on the bug tracker) Set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED - FIXED (this status has a particular meaning that is not appropriate in this case) If you want to do more to help you can test to see if your issue is a REGRESSION. To do so: 1. Download and install oldest version of LibreOffice (usually 3.3 unless your bug pertains to a feature added after 3.3) from https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/ 2. Test your bug 3. Leave a comment with your results. 4a. If the bug was present with 3.3 - set version to 'inherited from OOo'; 4b. If the bug was not present in 3.3 - add 'regression' to keyword Feel free to come ask questions or to say hello in our QA chat: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.freenode.net/#libreoffice-qa Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone! Warm Regards, QA Team MassPing-UntouchedBug
I recommend using UCanAccess: https://ucanaccess.sourceforge.net/site.html It doesn't do everything that ADE does but is cross-platform (Java) and has some advantages. For example, ADE has a limitation in that VBA functions are not available over ODBC. A query using Nz would have to be changed to IIF/IS NULL. UCanAccess uses JDBC and supports Nz. Instead of bundling a driver and increasing the installer size it would be better to handle drivers like DBeaver which has a driver installer that looks for the versions available and installs them as needed.
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I suggest to close this WONTFIX. 1. This is a Windows-only improvement. We would still be unable to open these files on Linux / macOS. 2. There is a EULA attached to the MS redistributable. We can't have that EULA imposed on LibreOffice users. We should simply provide some information about that in wiki; maybe with something in the program (or in help?) to point there easily. Current version of the redistributable is at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download-and-install-microsoft-365-access-runtime-185c5a32-8ba9-491e-ac76-91cbe3ea09c9
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #13) > I suggest to close this WONTFIX. > I agree.
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #13) > Current version of the redistributable is at > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download-and-install-microsoft- > 365-access-runtime-185c5a32-8ba9-491e-ac76-91cbe3ea09c9 This is the version of the Access runtime, that allows the execution of Access applications, and besides of the Access Database Engine install additional "things" we don't need. I think it is better to download and install only the Database engine that is downloadable at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920