• This is crucial:

    There may be error messages posted before this with more information

    So you could take a look at the output window and post everything you find there here in the forum.

    My first guess: BIDS is still configured to run in 64-bit mode, while the Jet/ACE OLE DB provider is only installed for 32-bit. Right-click on the project, go to properties and set the Run64BitRuntime to False.

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