Version 1.15.00 is the first release of a 64 bit version of PAMGuard. If you are using a Microsoft Access 2013 (version 15) with PAMGuard you should install the 2010 (version 14) engine as well. This may vary slightly from version to version. This can be checked by finding the Help > About section within Access. PAMGuard requires Microsoft Access to be installed as 32-bit version to work correctly. If you have you will need to uninstall Java 8 and reinstall Java 7 (32-bit) from the link above. It is suggested you switch OFF java updates in this case. Java 7 (32-bit) is currently available from the link below. A database import / export tool is available within the PAMGuard viewer to convert old Access databases to alternative formats. The PAMGuard team recommend that you use SQLite as a replacement for Microsoft Access. Note however that all Java 7 / Acces support is likely to be removed later in 2016. PAMGuard version 1.15.00 32 bit will continue to work with Microsoft Access so long as a 32 bit version of Java 7 is installed and you have no installations of Java 8 on your computer. (Follow links to the Java Archive) Microsoft Access See the PAMGuard help file for further details.

Limited connectivity to MS Access databases using the open source UCanAccess database connection is provided in Viewer mode which will allow users to convert old Access databases to SQLite or MySQL depending on preference. An alternative database interface has been provided in the form of SQLite which has been extensively tested with all PAMGuard modules.

However the Microsoft Access Database systemis no longer available. PAMGuard Version 1.15.00 is fully compatible with Java 8. We expect it to work without problems on Windows 8 and it should work under Windows XP. The latest version of PAMGuard has been tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10.

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