I've been trying to convert our access 2003 database over to 2007. Under tools, database utilities, convert database I receive an error message "The current user account doesn't have permission to convert or enable this database".

I have check my security access and do have administrator rights/permissions in the workgroup and user account. Is there something I am missing here because I do not know what to do at this point.

I really need to get this database converted to access 2007.

Thanks,

Todd

• Moved by Lanlan HuangMicrosoft contingent staff Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:53 AM

Hi,

Do you want to convert Access 2003 .MDB format to Access 2007 .Accdb format?

Since you description,>>Under tools, database utilities, convert database<< these steps seems are used to convert an Access 97 database to the Access 2003 .MDB format. Please see this article: https://support.office.com/en-sg/article/Convert-a-database-to-the-accdb-file-format-098ddd31-5f84-4e89-8f44-db0cf7c11acd  

If we just want to convert your .mdb file to the new format (an .accdb file), Office Access 2007 discards your user-level security settings. Please try to following this article to set or change Access 2003 user-level security in Access 2007.

And then, we may convert it. For more detail converting steps, please refer to the following link:

https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Convert-a-database-to-the-Access-2007-file-format-2fb6ee27-e776-492f-a26e-b2a44c6e8809

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support