Error Loading existing project

[Bey]

We just bought a few licenses of the professional edition and our team has been modifying a project on the network.  We have done some significant amount of work on it just this past week and today we get an error:

Fatal error:  Unreconizable  database format "filename.EAP"


What's up?!?!?  Please don't tell me we lost all our work!  

[Tjerk]

Hi Bey,

Have you tried "Repair database"? It's a menu option available in EA. Sometimes a flag gets corrupted by the JET3/4 database engine (from Microsoft, not Sparx), that menu option repairs the database.

I'm not sure if this error is also given with an older database / repository design. If the version you previously built your EAP file with is a couple of month old, it could be that the EAP file needs to be upgraded to the new repository design.

Greetings,
Tjerk

[zack2]

Another problem might be your database version. We get this error message when we try to open an Access 2000-based project without setting the "Use JET 4.0" option. Give this a try.

You have to open the sample program, then click on the View/Options menu selection, then check the "Use JET 4.0" checkbox option. This will require you to restart, then you should be able to open your project.