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!
QuickBooks Comes in Lots of Flavors
QuickBooks comes in lots of flavors. That’s a good thing.
I remember as a kid growing up in Houston going to the Baskin Robbins store on Memorial Drive. 31 flavors! Mint Chocolate Chip or Rocky Road…hmmmm…
QuickBooks users make choices too.
The hot choice these days, at least from Intuit’s point of view, is QuickBooks Online. I just [...]
Our Most Popular QuickBooks Articles of 2011
What were QuickBooks users reading about in 2011? Here are the articles on our website that had the most reads during the year. Maybe what you learn in one of them will make your New Year just a little better.
1. 13 Steps to Implementing Job Costing in QuickBooks for Contractors
Job costing is an important function [...]
Two QuickBooks Users Deal with Their Very Large Files
If you run QuickBooks week after week, year after year, your QBW data file gets pretty big. (Press the F2 key in QuickBooks with your company open to see how big your file is.)
What if it gets so big that performance starts to suffer? Or you start to experience errors or intermittent problems in the [...]
What If My QuickBooks File Won’t Upgrade?
Upgrading your version of QuickBooks is supposed to be easy: You install the new software, open your QuickBooks company file, and voila! Your data converts to the the new version, and you carry on.
But sometimes you hit a bump. You open your data file with the new version and you get an error. Sometimes it [...]
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 [...]
So Many Big Files
I’m talking to people every day who are concerned about the size of their QuickBooks company data file. (Press F2 in QuickBooks to see how big your file is).
Some people are concerned because their file is bigger than they expect, or bigger than any other data file they work with, and that makes them nervous [...]
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 [...]
What if the IRS Wants My QuickBooks File?
As we have discussed before, the IRS has the authority to request QuickBooks data files from US taxpayers as part of their audit procedures. (And not only QuickBooks – they can request Peachtree data as well.)
We also hear of state agencies and insurance companies sometimes requiring copies of QuickBooks data for their audits.
If you [...]