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 [...]
Is your QuickBooks file too big, sluggish, slow? Did it use to be lean and quick but now has a paunch?
As you use QuickBooks over the years, the transactions build up more and more. For transaction-heavy businesses, this results in large data files that take longer and longer to update in real-time across a network. [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever seen a screen like this?
I hope not!
But if you ever do find yourself unable to open your company, or it fails when you try to do certain operations in QuickBooks, there are three possibilities for recovery:
1. Restore your last good backup. Hopefully you have one that is pretty current.
Just make sure that [...]
There are different kinds of data problems that can occur with QuickBooks. Some are recoverable, some are not.
If QuickBooks crashes, here are four steps you can take to make the best out of a bad situation.
If you don’t have a plan for consistently backing up your data, here is very doable one.
What version of QuickBooks am I using?
What edition of QuickBooks am I using?
What update patch do I have installed?
How big is my data file?
How fragmented is it? (And thus, how potentially unstable is it?)
Where is my data file located?
Where is my license number information?
All these questions and more are easily found simply by pressing the [...]
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