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Greg Sorum

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Aug 11, 2004, 7:50:22 PM8/11/04
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After installing Windows XP SP2, I get "Unexpected error from external
database driver (15877)" when opening dbase files with ADO/jet.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced/fixed this.


Jeremy Collins

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Aug 12, 2004, 4:30:19 AM8/12/04
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Greg Sorum wrote:

No, but then I haven't tried to open dBase files with
Jet (i.e the MS Access database engine).

What is your connection string?


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Greg Sorum

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Aug 12, 2004, 9:51:33 AM8/12/04
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Here's my connection string

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\;Extended Properties=DBASE
III;Persist Security Info=False

I've also tried using BDE and ADO/ODBC. I can read other databases fine.

Greg


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Jeremy Collins

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Aug 12, 2004, 11:09:18 AM8/12/04
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Greg Sorum wrote:

> Here's my connection string
>
> Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\;Extended Properties=DBASE
> III;Persist Security Info=False
>
> I've also tried using BDE and ADO/ODBC. I can read other databases fine.

Don't know, sorry. I've seen connection string like this that
work with dbase IV (just a change in the Extended Properties).

Are you sure they're dBase III? Are you sure they're dBase at
all, and not Foxpro (a native FoxPro ADO provider exists,
which might be worth a try).

Are the database files complete and uncorrupted? (I.e can
you view them with another program?) If the BDE doesn't work
either I'd start to suspect the files themselves.

Greg Sorum

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Aug 13, 2004, 12:58:26 AM8/13/04
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I removed SP2 and everything works fine now.

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Apr 28, 2005, 10:38:54 PM4/28/05
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Yes - I am having the same problem, works fine on machines without SP2.

> After installing Windows XP SP2, I get "Unexpected error from external
> database driver (15877)" when opening dbase files with ADO/jet.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced/fixed this.
>
>

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May 4, 2005, 10:01:25 AM5/4/05
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307455/EN-US/

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Xbase]
"BDE"=dword:00000002

BR, Xentrax


> After installing Windows XP SP2, I get "Unexpected error from external
> database driver (15877)" when opening dbase files with ADO/jet.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced/fixed this.

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