Linking, and opening Access

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Carly

I have a program which we bought that is a billing program
that doesnt have all the reports that we want. What I want
to be able to do is to get at the data using a form that
we can use to both update data as well as see certain
aspects of our data. Sounds simple and straight forward,
but when I try to use access to open the database it says:

1) The database is locked. I then close our billing
software and then get a different error.

2) It say's that the database is "Read Only". I go to the
properties of the database, and the Read Only box isnt
checked.

3) If I copy the database out of the application I can
read the data.

Any help would be great,

Thanks

Carly
 
Sounds like you need to contact the company that sold you
the billing software. They may have security set up so
that their customers cannot get to the 'back-end' of the
files.
 
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