Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ACCDR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ACCDR to another file type
To convert your ACCDR file to another format, you need Microsoft Access or other Database software.
Convert a file to ACCDR
To convert other file formats to the "Runtime Database Application" file type, you need software like Microsoft Access or a similar tool.
About ACCDR files
The .ACCDR file extension is a specific deployment format for Microsoft Access databases, designed to force the application into "Runtime Mode." When a user opens this file, Access deliberately suppresses the Navigation Pane, Ribbon toolbars, and all Design View capabilities. This ensures that end-users interact with the database only through the provided forms and reports, preventing accidental or malicious changes to the underlying schema or VBA code. While this is excellent for distribution, it is a main issue for data owners who need to extract information or modify the structure but find themselves locked out of their own database. The format is strictly proprietary and tethered to the Windows ecosystem, making it inaccessible on macOS or mobile platforms without virtualization or conversion. Large .ACCDR files also suffer from the standard limitations of the ACE/Jet database engine, such as a 2GB file size cap and corruption risks over network shares. To regain administrative control, the primary goal is usually converting the file back to a standard ACCDB format. For data portability and long-term archiving, extracting the raw tables into open formats like CSV, XML, or XLSX is essential to escape the vendor lock-in of the Access environment.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ACCDR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ACCDR file to ACCDB, DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use Microsoft Access or similar software from the "Locked Database Deployment" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to ACCDR, try Microsoft Access or another comparable tool in the "Locked Database Deployment" category.
The ACCDR Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ACCDR converter.