title: How to Copy data from an Access Database opening in read only
body: <p>I have an access database in 97 and I am just trying to open it in access 03. </p>
  
  <p>I can open it and see the data. but it is read only therefore I can't do anything with the data, not even copy.</p>
  
  <p>I need to make sure the data matches a 2003 version of this database that was converted.</p>
  
  <p>In order to do this, I take all the data in the tables from the 97 access file, and compare it to the data in the 03 tables. with a copy-paste into a textbox within a small application I built. Or I would export the 97 table -> create the same table in the new 03 database -> then import and compare again, to make sure everything imported fine.</p>
  
  <p>However, I can't do ANYTHING because of it being read only.</p>
  
  <p>Things I have tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Checked off the read only attribute from the folder</li>
  <li>Looked at the actual access file permissions to make sure my account had modify/read/write which it does</li>
  <li>searched online and found most cases to be the fault of the permissions. </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>is there anyway I can just copy the 97 data somehow? This database has thousands of records, and I would really prefer to not to look at each one individually and check it in the 03 database.</p>