[Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

[Ann M Molineux]

Sorry- I mistyped it is '.accdb'!

From: Ann Molineux <annm at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:annm at austin.utexas.edu>>
Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:58 PM
To: "gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>" <gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>>, "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>" <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

Cindy,
As far as I know there is no MS Access on a Mac-yet-unless you are running the Mac as a PC. If you notice the MS Office suite for the Mac contains no Access as one of the programs included in the bundle, unlike the PC version. There is an Access - like program within OpenOffice which I have heard had poor import/export tools. I do not know that program but it could account for  your colleague's problem. OpenOffice went away in 2011 but I believe there are successors. If you are certain it is MS Access the file endings may be .mdb or .aaccdb- depending on the version of Access you have been using or updated to since 1990's.
Best of luck
Ann

From: "gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>" <gnelson at bio.fsu.edu<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>>
Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:14 AM
To: "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>" <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

Hi, Cindy

Wondering the same thing, myself. Could be a custom Access db renamed to Accession. Check the file extension. If Access, it'll be mdb.

Gil

On 1/1/2014 1:25 AM, Steve Halford wrote:
Are you sure you're not dealing with Microsoft Access?   I lost a lot of information when Access "upgraded" without being backwards compatible

Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca<mailto:halford at sfu.ca>)
Museum Technician (Retired)
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University



On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Opitz, Cindy <cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu<mailto:cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu>> wrote:
Happy New Year!
Does anyone have experience with software called "Accession"? A collection on campus databased objects on an iMac in the 1990s using "Accession" software and now has no access to the information. I'm not familiar with the program. The collection manager currently uses Past Perfect for a different collection and would like help figuring out how to retrieve the data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any ideas?

Cindy Opitz
Collections Manager
Museum of Natural History
11 Macbride Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242
319-335-0481<tel:319-335-0481>
www.uiowa.edu/mnh<http://www.uiowa.edu/mnh>
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