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Good afternoon,

I've been unsuccessfully looking for a way to add data from a .mdb geodatabase into QGIS for mac. Using the add vector layer, .mdb is not available in the filetypes, and in the database connection I don't have a clue on how to connect to a database thats already in your hard drive.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Andres

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Nope, I already read that thread. The problem I have is to add data from a .mdb file. Apparently they can be added easily on the Windows version, but no on the mac version. – Andres Aristizabal Nov 16 '12 at 2:17
The primary problem is that .mbd is a proprietary Microsoft format that mostly only works on Windows. There is a project called MDH Tools that allows you to read .mdb files on 'nix platforms (including OSX although probably not too easy). mdbtools.sourceforge.net It looks like you can do it via gdal/ogr, but not by default, you still need mdbtools. I would suggest using gdal/ogr on a Windows box to export to a more useful format. – DavidF Nov 16 '12 at 4:58

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