MS Access DB permissions problem

Tried to connect to MS Access as a source db :
SQL developer 3.0 connects but does not capture the access db, i don't the content of tables - only can make copy of tables .
SQL developer 2.1 shows alert - "Change Permissions for Access db - No Read rights fo system tables..."
what shoud i do?
Edited by: user1550830 on 18.10.2010 9:21

In SQL Developer 3.0, we have removed the quick migrate functionality and replaced it with a new wizard.
Most people just want to move tables and data and for that they can right click on the tables they want to move and copy them to the connection of their choice.
If you want more than this, then you still need to run the Microsoft Access Exporter for your version of Access. This is documented in the Online help and is available from the tools > Migration menu. Using the files create by this exporter, you can then run the wizard for access and import those files from the exporter and carry on as normal.
Thanks
Barry

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-- if a file is in /Users/paisleye but not in /Users/test, then the copy isn't going to fix anything, but it isn't going to hurt anything more, either. The step where you set ownership of everything in /Users/paisleye to test:staff might just fix all of those problems.
-- if a file is in /Users/paisleye AND /Users/test, then if the ownership/permissions are right on one and wrong on the other it's probably /Users/test that's good. The copy (the long complicated tar command) will copy the /Users/test version and it's permissions/ownership overtop the /Users/paisleye version. If that's not right, there is a backup in /Users/paisl, and on the TimeMachine, and on the clone.
What's likely is that you are going to have the occasional weird thing happen with some stray file for months/years. You can always go back and use chown and/or chmod on an individual file to fix it. (The -R is the "recursive" flag to do a directory and everything underneath. Leave it out, and it just does one file at a time.)
I actually ended up with three different accounts on my machine that belong to "me" and had to do this. (I bought the machine with free Parallels installed, and MacMall created an account called "user" to install it and I had to clean that up when I got it.) This is not a terrible thing. One thing that I would recommend if you get it all done and cleaned up and you are happy -- keep the test account, and keep it as an Administrator; then turn off Administrator on the paisleye account. Then every time you need to do something Administrator, just give the test username/password. Every so often you will get software that will refuse to install from a non-priv'd account (looking at you adobe!) so just turn on Fast User Switching and log into the test account and install from there. It just a lot safer if you are not logged in all of the time with privs...
And this unix stuff isn't hard to get the hang of. If you half remember something, you can google it and find oodles of excellent documentation.

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