![]() ![]() Actually it looks like a spreadsheet which someone once said was all Works database was, and what I use as databases today. Now I just have to decide which format to save it as or port the data to. OpenOffice just opened it partially as before. LibreOffice immediately recognized it and opened it as a dBASE file. Well, interestingly enough, despite Villeroy’s possible objection to changing the file extension to get a file to work, since OpenOffice kind of opened the file as a dBASE file, and selecting DBF made all of the files invisible to LibreOffice, I changed the extension. Maybe I have to select the file type first. LibreOffice just flashed an error message and closed. Well, when I opened the file in OpenOffice a list was given to me to try to open the file. }VT&Times New RomanÿVT&Verdanaw Romanÿ ZT Å ZT Å& ZT Y\T à=Ð/Ð8 à=Ð/Ð8d#T à=Ð/Ð8d&ò%ò[T of Sumaria.[T p-ÀPolitical%Shang Dynasty begins in China.[T surrenders. Opening as a dBASE file wound up pretty much like Notepad++ but more organized and readable. The last one opened up a window with a sort of guide, but no information. The ones that worked were dBASE and Uniform Office Format 2 Text. In the meantime, I went ahead and tried opening the file with OpenOffice and wound up with a list of choices. ![]() Still a lot of money when on a small SSI budget. Which would require me to purchase Windows 10. Mountaineer wrote:Most often it is suggested to buy Works9 and install it under Win10 to access and convert the files. In which case I will have no choice but to recreate these files like so many others that were completely deleted back in November, 2018. So I suspect that considering the age and multiple transfers of the files over the years, the files are corrupt. After LibreOffice crashed it did open up in Safe Mode after that. Some of the statements even seem to contradict themselves to me.Īll I wanted to do was rescue the data somehow. I really do not understand what you are ranting about. These are not OpenOffice files renamed with Works extensions either. If anyone else was posting about OpenOffice/LibreOffice files on this thread, then they are off-topic. I am strictly posting about WDB files and nothing else. I don’t know about anyone else on this thread, but I am not writing about opening ODS or ODB files. Um, is this in reply to my last post showing the contents of the WDB file as opened in Notepad++? I did not change any extension to enable the file to work in OpenOffice or LibreOffice. If LO crashes when you try to open some file (.wdb is a supported binary file format), you should try to open the file while running LO in safe mode (menu:Help>Restart in safe mode.). ![]() If your LibreOffice crashes with your files, I'm pretty sure that they will crash with any. Base can not open any files other than true. In case of success it would load the data into a Calc sheet. This is just another method to open some file with Open/LibreOffice. odb extension demonstrates the total ignorance of Windows users. The idea to rename the file so it has an. Villeroy wrote:It is a Microsoft file format from the 90ies. If you can’t access the image, here is a sample of the text: Here is a screenshot of one of the files in Notepad++. I pay $500 for an upgrade and loose more good features than I gain. ![]()
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