Unrecognized database format error!

[anonymouse]

We have a single model file that several of us edit (generally different disjoint diagrams) and maintain. Today while opening our model file I kept getting the following error in an OK dialog box with 'EA' title:

"An Error has Occured: Unrecognized database format '<Our EAP file>'.

Any help will be appreciated. Did our file get corrupted ? I also noticed that a .ldb file that is sitting in the same directory as our model file. I did have some issues all day with the file where it kept saying that someone was trying to modify whatever I had been working on (which is unlikely).

[thomaskilian]

Hi,
I remember some discussion related to the database format here in this discussion forum but can not recall where. EA only supports some older format. (I do not have access to EA right this moment.) Can you open the file via ACCESS or through the ODBC interface?

[Tjerk]

Two situations come to my mind:

1) The database is corrupted (happens over a network with Access (EAP) files, the corruption is doesn't damage your data) -> open another EAP file and select Tools/Manage .EAP file/Repair .EAP file and select your EAP file (doesn't do much, just resets a flag in the database;

2) Someone has switched an option named JET4: once this option has been set and your project has been opened with that EA instance, your project EAP file has been converted to support JET4 -> Now everyone has to use the JET4 option (see tools, options, first screen);

The LDB file is not a problem, that's a MSAccess lock file but the project (EAP) file is multi-user and locks should not be a problem.

Greetz,
Tjerk