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When trying to open an installation that was converted from an AccessBase v1.5x file, you may get an error message that the installation was created with an earlier version of AccessBase and needs to be converted. When trying to convert it (again), you get another error message, this time saying that the installation has already been converted.

This happens because an entry is missing in the .abi file.

To illustrate the differences, below are two .abi files, the first one from AccessBase v1.5x, the second one after the conversion process.

This is the original AccessBase version:

[Installation Settings]
Installation Name=
UserTpyeLabel1=
UserTpyeLabel2=
UserTpyeLabel3=
UserTpyeLabel4=
Smallest Memory Module =128
Data To Program To Network =1
Pages Used Since Last Programming of the Network =53

This is the converted AB2K version:

[Installation Settings]
Installation Name=
UserTypeLabel1=
UserTypeLabel2=
UserTypeLabel3=
UserTypeLabel4=
Data To Program To Network=0
Ignore Case for Directory Codes=1

[Version]
Installation Version=2.00

When trying to open the converted installation that gives you the error messages, you will find that the following two lines are missing from the end of the file:

 [Version]
Installation Version=2.00

To correct this error, simply open the .abi file in Notepad or other text editor, and then add a blank line and the two lines listed above, click: File, then click Save; this will save the file with its original name and will be readable by AccessBase2000.