In Microsoft Access 2002, in Microsoft Office Access 2003, and in Microsoft Office Access 2007, if you move a database file that was created in earlier versions of Microsoft Access from one computer to another computer, and you then try to open the database on the other computer, you receive the following message:
You are trying to open a read-only database.
The first time you open an earlier version database, you must be able to write changes to the database.
* The database file's read-only attribute may be set; clear this attribute.
* You may have chosen the Open Read Only command in the Open dialog box. Don't choose this command the first time you open the database.
* Your license to use this application may have expired.
Note Microsoft Office XP has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to turn on this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office XP, download the"Office XP add-in: extended alerts button" from the following Microsoft Office Update Web site:
NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking
Web Info in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts turned on.