SubscribeHere’s what one QuickBooks user said about their recent data corruption experience:
“After our Quickbooks file became corrupted and we lost our backups, we were in a panic.
I found QuickbooksUsers.com via a web search and contacted them regarding repair. With expedited service our file was repaired within 24 hours (on a Saturday!) and we were [...]
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In Their Own Words: QuickBooks User with a Corrupted File
Taipei 101, Stability, and QuickBooks
Until 2010, Taipei 101 was the tallest skyscraper in the world. How do you build a structure like that to be safe in a land of earthquakes and typhoons? You hang a big ball inside the top of it.
Taipei 101 uses a device called a “tuned mass damper” to minimize the motion of the building [...]
Understanding the Three Kinds of QuickBooks Data Problems
Since we specialize in accounting database consulting, we’ve seen tens of thousands of data problem cases over the years. You can boil them down to three categories:
1. Lurking data problems. In these situations, everything looks OK to the user in their daily use of QuickBooks. They can enter bills, run reports, do payroll, and backup [...]
How to Repair QuickBooks Files
So you are getting a fatal error in QuickBooks…
* Error -6000
* QuickBooks reports “Connection to database lost”
* Your file is “not a QuickBooks data file, or is damaged…”
* Customers or vendors are missing or scrambled
* Your file fails one of these: Backup, restore, upgrade, verify, or rebuild
How can you repair these situations?
If you have a [...]
7 Ways to Avoid QuickBooks Downtime
I’ll bet QuickBooks is a mission-critical application for your office. What would happen to your business if QuickBooks went down? Here are 7 ways to avoid that:
1. Maintain your network. Actually, get your IT guy or girl to do it. Nothing can take down QuickBooks like a flaky network.
Keep your server defragged and your whole [...]
Solving List Damage Issues in QuickBooks Files
The Verify/Rebuild functions in QuickBooks are great at identifying and repairing a lot of different kinds of problems in a QuickBooks file.
But one problem they can’t fix is problems in your company’s list tables. Your lists are things like your chart of accounts, customers, vendors, items, sales reps, etc.
If list data gets corrupted in a [...]
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 [...]