Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object filename.

I got this error trying to open DBF files using Access: The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object filename. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly.

I had a folder full of dBASE IV DBF files. Turns out the problem was that my file names were longer than 8 characters.

For example, after I renamed "My Customers.DBF" to "CUST.DBF", it opened just fine.

I had a lot of files I had to rename, which sucked.

1 comment:

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