Bug 55334

Summary:	MS Access 2007 files are not recognized
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <shnatsel>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Shared Mime Info group <shared_mime_info>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	caolanm, dtardon
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Example of Access 2007 file

Description Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 2012-09-25 22:33:44 UTC

Created attachment 67696 [details]
Example of Access 2007 file

MS Office Access 2007 files are not recognized.

example - Microsoft Office Access 2007 Database.accdb:
	name: application/octet-stream
	data: application/octet-stream
	file: application/octet-stream

This bug was originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/208096

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2013-02-12 17:32:45 UTC

Caolan, does LO know how to open that?

Comment 2 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 2013-02-12 19:04:01 UTC

According to http://www.libreoffice.org/features/ it does.

Comment 3 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 2013-02-12 19:09:06 UTC

Oh wait, that doesn't mention 2007 explicitly, sorry. 
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Connecting_to_Microsoft_Access does.

Comment 4 Caolán McNamara 2013-02-13 01:09:50 UTC

caolanm->dtardon: don't we only support msaccess under windows via ado or some such ?

Comment 5 David Tardon 2013-02-13 06:27:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Oh wait, that doesn't mention 2007 explicitly, sorry. 
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Connecting_to_Microsoft_Access does.

Have you actually _read_ the text? The first two sentences are: "These article describes how to connect to a Microsoft Access database file, if you use a MS Windows operating system. For other systems the solutions are not yet finished." ("not yet finished" should better be replaced by "not even started")

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/ is misleading, unfortunately. It should state that MS Access DB driver is only available on Windows. (It should also not mention Adabas, because the code has been removed and it is not clear if it had ever been compiled anyway.)

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