ADN Converter

Extract text from Access blank project templates (ADN)


Drop or upload your .ADN file
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How to extract text from your ADN file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADN file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ADN to another file type

To convert ADN templates to another format, you need Microsoft Access or other Database software.

Convert a file to ADN

To convert other file formats to the "Access Database Template" file type, you need software like Microsoft Access or a similar tool.


About ADN files

An .ADN file is an Access Blank Project Template created by Microsoft. It was utilized in legacy versions of Microsoft Access (primarily 2007 and 2010) to store pre-configured startup settings, forms, and database connection strings for Access Data Project (.ADP) files. Relying on an .ADN file today is highly impractical. It is a closed, proprietary binary format that requires a paid Microsoft Office subscription to open. Worse, because Microsoft deprecated the underlying Access Data Project architecture in newer versions of Access, modern users frequently find these files completely inaccessible on current operating systems. Furthermore, an .ADN is just a configuration template - it does not contain standard database tables or records, making it useless if your goal is to extract raw data. Standard online converters completely fail to process .ADN files because there is no standardized translation for a proprietary settings template into formats like .CSV or .SQL. If you need the actual data, you must open the connected database using legacy software and manually export the tables. While true conversion of the settings is impossible, our analysis engine can inspect the file's internal hex and extract embedded plain-text, such as database connection strings or server paths. If our analysis detects any supported underlying metadata, viewing or extracting that text may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ADN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ADN file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use Microsoft Access or similar software from the "Database Project Template Storage" 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 ADN, try Microsoft Access or another comparable tool in the "Database Project Template Storage" category.



The ADN 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 ADN converter.