Our organization hired someone to design us a database. This database contains two decades worth of sensitive scientific data. After a couple of migrations, new computer refreshes, etc. No one can access this database any more.
We contacted the old programer and they have no idea how to fix it (we didn't hire well!) and cannot remember any of the old passwords.
The Dbase has a FE and BE files, its setup some kind of a admin user and accounts for all the scientists. When I open some kind of a wkgp file I can see the list of users and when I use an online password crack program I can see all the passwords are still ok but when I click on the FE or BE files I get the following message:
"You do not have the necessary permissions to use the 'W:\dBase\TMDB\BE_TMDB.mdb' object. Have your administrator or the person who created this object establish the appropriate permissions for you."
According to my permissions on the computer I have full access so I must assume this is something built into the database itself.
Also, if it helps, I remember we had to have files installed on our computer (C:\ folder) to allow us access but what with computer refreshes and the like, these files do not exist.
We are using Access 11 (2003) SP2 if that helps (the DB was created in an older version but I don't know which one)