EA Lite - "not a valid password"

[ayadwl]

Hi all,

I'm not an experienced EA user, actually I'm only about to use EA Lite for opening / viewing local projects (EAP files). There was one time I was able to open and browse a project. Since then, every open attempt results in error message: "An error has occurred: Not a valid password."

Of course I'm not attempting to reach any remote server of DB and I don't have any credential available.

I wasn't able to find any mention for such issues in the forum. If someone has any ideas I'd be happy for any help.

[qwerty]

That sounds like you got the wrong DB content. Usually such an error occurs when trying to access an uninitialized database. If you have Access on your machine, rename .eap to .mdb (or whatever that Access extension was) and look into the repository. You should find a table t_object with names of classes. Depending on that we can see further.

q.

[Eve]

We are aware that some users are experiencing issues opening Jet 3 databases (.eap) using Jet 4 under Windows 10.

We have not been able to identify the cause of the issue  or a fix. For a workaround, if you disable JET 4 (Start > Preferences > General > Use JET 4.0) you should be able to open them.

[ayadwl]

@Eve, thanks that helped.
I only want to add for clarity that "Use JET 4.0" was already unset when I open EA. I was only able to open projects after setting "Use JET 4.0" and unsetting it again.