SubscribeUntil 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 [...]
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Taipei 101, Stability, and QuickBooks
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 [...]
My QuickBooks Customers or Vendors Are Suddenly Gone
We’ve been hearing from a number of users in the last month about this problem.
One day, everything is fine. Then suddenly, the users notice that a lot of their bills, or bill payments, or invoices have missing vendor or customer information. The name, in particular. Or their customer or vendor lists go blank. This is [...]
2 a.m. Friday Night? We’re Working
Remember watching TV when you were a kid? In the evenings, a public service announcement would come on, saying, “It’s 10:00 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”
Well, on many a Friday night – late at night! – our team is busy working on QuickBooks data. It’s not because we are insomniacs. No, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Hidden Value of the QuickBooks TLG file
Part of your QuickBooks company data is the TLG file. It’s not something you normally are aware of, but in some situations it can be a very important file.
The transaction log file (TLG for short) is maintained automatically by QuickBooks as part of your data. The file resides in the same folder as your main [...]