Access 97 Security

Have a database I inherited from someone who has left. When I try to open it I get a message ” you do not have privileges to open this database contact the administrator or person who created this database.” It doesn’t ask for a password. Everyone that is supposed to have access to this database cannot open this file, I cannot copy the tables into another database, I cannot open a copy of the db on my drive. IT has no idea what or why I cannot open this file as I have permission, to the drive, the folder, the files. As far as I know there is no password on this file. How do I get the info out? or myself in? This is the only file on this drive that I cannot access