SubscribeWhen we repair QuickBooks damaged files, or supercondense them, we usually ask that people transmit them to us in the form of a portable copy.
Why? Because it’s by far the smallest kind of backup of your data that you can make. QuickBooks might take a 1GB Enterprise QBW file (native format company data file) and [...]
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Can I Trust a Portable Copy of my Data? It’s so Small!
I’d be Crazy To Not Have These 3 Things for My Computer
There are some things in life you just don’t want to go without: Seatbelts in a car. A batting helmet when you’re playing baseball. Sunscreen when you’re outside all day (well, at least for a fair-skinned chap like me!)
Same with your business computer. There are just some things you’d better have:
1. Battery backup. This is [...]
A Hole in the Safety Net
It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last, but it still gets to me: a QuickBooks user with catastrophic data loss and a safety net with a big hole in it.
The story? A lady in Texas called this afternoon. Her Windows 7 machine had crashed and she had had to reinstall her [...]
Restoring a Backup — Should You Overwrite?
People restore QuickBooks backups for several reasons: to get rid of data errors or corruption in their current file, to bring a different computer up to date with the most current version of the data, or to recover from a computer crash.
A common question at restore time is “What should I name the restored file?”
You [...]
The QuickBooks Equivalent of Texting While Driving
I recently spoke with a gentleman who lost eight months of data in his QuickBooks file.
It’s not perfectly clear what happened to cause this, but we think the key moment was when he got some kind of message about the file name, and something about ‘overwriting’. Sounds like the warning you might get when you’re [...]
How to Transfer QuickBooks from One Computer to Another
Did you get yourself a shiny new computer on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Or maybe you just need to get some year-end bookkeeping done on your laptop over the holidays?
If you need to get QuickBooks from one computer to another, it’s not a big deal. Here’s what you do:
1. Computer #2: Install QuickBooks (you’ll [...]
Hidden Problems in QuickBooks Backups (Audio)
You are secure with the backup system you have in place…or are you? In this podcast, Shannon Tucker discusses some common pitfalls to QuickBooks backups.
Hidden Problems in QuickBooks Backups – QBUsersGO Episode 1
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Bear spray, QuickBooks, and your computer
When my family camped in Yellowstone National Park last month, we were camping in bear country.
Unfortunately, there have been some bad bear incidents in Yellowstone this summer.
A friend of mine let me borrow his bear spray for our trip. Bear spray is like personal-defense pepper spray, except it’s grizzly bear strength. I took the spray [...]
Has QuickBooks 2010 Improved Centuries-Old Business Practices?
Some business office procedures remain the same as they have for centuries. Has QuickBooks 2010 transformed some of them?
Neglecting Your IT Can Cost You
I guest blogged for Smart Business, Stupid Business about a customer that had serious IT instabilities, but refused to address them. We had to repair their data a dozen times, but they never learned.
Read the story here.
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