ACC: TransferText Cannot Import Data into an Enabled Microsoft Access 2.0 Database (160501)

SYMPTOMS

When you use TransferText in a macro or in a Visual Basic procedure to import data into an enabled Microsoft Access 2.0 database in Microsoft Access 7.0 or 97, you receive may the message:

   You can't import objects into a database created in an earlier version
   of Microsoft Access.

This problem does not occur if you use TransferText to import data into an enabled Microsoft Access 7.0 database in Microsoft Access 97.

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Using Notepad or another text editor, create the following new text file and save it as C:\My Documents\Customer.txt.

      "ALFKI","Alfreds Futterkiste"
      "ANATR","Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados"
      "ANTON","Antonio Moreno Taquerias"

Start Microsoft Access 2.0 and create a new database called Transfer.mdb.

Create the following new table in Design view:

      Table: Customers
      -------------------------------
      Field Name: CustomerID
         Data Type: Text
         Field Size: 5
         Indexed: Yes (No Duplicates)
      Field Name: CompanyName
         Data Type: Text
         Field Size: 255
      Table Properties: Customers
      -------------------------------
         PrimaryKey: CustomerID

Save and close the Customers table.
On the File menu, click Imp/Exp Setup.
Without modifying the default values in the Import/Export Setup dialog box, click the Save As button and save the specification as Cust. Click OK to close the dialog box.

Create the following new macro called ImportCustomers:

      Macro: ImportCustomers        Action
      -------------------------------------------
                                    TransferText

      ImportCustomers Actions
      -------------------------------------------
      TransferText
         Transfer Type: Import Delimited
         Specification Name: Cust
         Table Name: Customers
         File Name: C:\My Documents\Customer.txt
         Has Field Names: No

Save the macro, and then run it.
Open the Customers table in Datasheet view and verify that it contains the three records from the text file you created in step 1.
Delete all three records from the table.
Close the table, and then quit Microsoft Access.
Start Microsoft Access 7.0 or 97, and open the Transfer.mdb database.
In the Convert/Open Database dialog box, click Open Database. Click OK when you see the message that you can't make changes to the database objects.
Click the Macros tab in the Database window and run the ImportCustomers macro. Note that the macro fails, and you receive the error message:
You can't import objects into a database created in an earlier version of Microsoft Access.

REFERENCES

For more information about importing or linking data in an enabled database, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

135372 ACC: Cannot Import/Link Data in Enabled Database

For more information about enabling databases, search the Help Index for "enabling databases created in previous versions," and then "About opening a previous-version database without converting it."

For more information about using the TransferText action or TransferText method, search the Help Index for "TransferText action" or TransferText method," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.