[juneau-lug] Accessing Windows Office data
- From: Larry Hurlock <larrynorte@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Juneau Linux_Users <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
I want to use a single machine, and Ubuntu/Gnome is fully functional for the
things I want to do, I just need to access some old data.
Machine: Dell 360 Precision with dual hard drives -- an 80GB and an old 10GB
which has Win 98 installed complete with Office Professional including ACCESS
database.
Installation on 80GB drive C: Ubuntu 9.10 Gnome 2.28.1
Installation history: C: drive was identified as my hard drive, and my old
10GB hard drive is identified as /media/317D-1DBE
History: 10GB drive was lifted from my old Dell running Win98, Microsoft 2000
Professional (w/Access) was running
Problem: Want to use ACCESS to read the .mdb database files, but don't know how
If I open the 10GB directly through the desktop icon , the message says "could
not read /media/317..., no application installed for JET database files"
(I believe that JET is the historical name for ACCESS file format)
If I go through Applications>.wine>... MSACCESS.exe to try to either open the
.mdb file, or open ACCESS, it says "application must be installed to run,
please run SETUP from location where you originally installed the application"
What would that involve?
I know there are other options, but I don't want to partition my hard drive
with a re-install of Ubuntu.
Is .wine really a good answer to the problem of getting to my old Windows
format data? I have identified /media/317D-1DBE to .wine, so that is not a
problem
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