Peachtree 2004 "This is not a valid company" error

Posted by Laura on May 31, 2007, 2:02 pm

Please log in for more thread options

would you like me to try opening up the company? I have PT 2004 complete. If
you want me to try, e-mail me the backup file or winzip the entire contents
of the company folder.

>> Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete if you

>> want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at

>> soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the

>> company

>> folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

> It is PT complete.

>> > What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and paste it

>> > all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any missing

>> > files but i will try the backup.

>> >> How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making a PT

>> >> backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW

>> >> company

>> >> on

>> >> the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a file on

>> >> that

>> >> machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

Posted by tom on May 31, 2007, 3:36 pm

Please log in for more thread options

> would you like me to try opening up the company? I have PT 2004 complete.

> If you want me to try, e-mail me the backup file or winzip the entire

> contents of the company folder.

>>> Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete if

>>> you

>>> want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at

>>> soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the

>>> company

>>> folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

>>>

>> It is PT complete.

>>>

>>> > What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and paste it

>>> > all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any missing

>>> > files but i will try the backup.

>>>

>>> >> How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making a

>>> >> PT

>>> >> backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW

>>> >> company

>>> >> on

>>> >> the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a file

>>> >> on

>>> >> that

>>> >> machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

I had this happen once with the same "This not a valid company" error when I
transfered a clients data to a new server. The version.txt file in the
copied data was blank. I looked at a backup and the version .txt file had
16.002 ( for PT complete 2006). Open the file named version.txt in the
company folder and see if there is a version number. I just added it to the
blank file and the comnpany opened right up. If it's blank, hopefully
someone with PT Complete 2004 can post it.

Tom

Posted by Laura on May 31, 2007, 5:04 pm

Please log in for more thread options

>> would you like me to try opening up the company? I have PT 2004 complete.

>> If you want me to try, e-mail me the backup file or winzip the entire

>> contents of the company folder.

>>>> Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete if

>>>> you

>>>> want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at

>>>> soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the

>>>> company

>>>> folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

>>>>

>>> It is PT complete.

>>>

>>>>

>>>> > What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and paste

>>>> > it

>>>> > all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any missing

>>>> > files but i will try the backup.

>>>>

>>>> >> How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making a

>>>> >> PT

>>>> >> backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW

>>>> >> company

>>>> >> on

>>>> >> the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a file

>>>> >> on

>>>> >> that

>>>> >> machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

>>>

> I had this happen once with the same "This not a valid company" error when

> I transfered a clients data to a new server. The version.txt file in the

> copied data was blank. I looked at a backup and the version .txt file had

> 16.002 ( for PT complete 2006). Open the file named version.txt in the

> company folder and see if there is a version number. I just added it to

> the blank file and the comnpany opened right up. If it's blank, hopefully

> someone with PT Complete 2004 can post it.

Yes, that is one cause of this error message. It is worth checking for that
file.

For PT Complete 2004 the file should read:

14.02

Posted by blincolnw@gmail.com on June 1, 2007, 11:39 am

Please log in for more thread options

> >> would you like me to try opening up the company? I have PT 2004 complete.

> >> If you want me to try, e-mail me the backup file or winzip the entire

> >> contents of the company folder.

> >>>> Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete if

> >>>> you

> >>>> want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at

> >>>> soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the

> >>>> company

> >>>> folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

> >>> It is PT complete.

> >>>> > What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and paste

> >>>> > it

> >>>> > all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any missing

> >>>> > files but i will try the backup.

> >>>> >> How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making a

> >>>> >> PT

> >>>> >> backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW

> >>>> >> company

> >>>> >> on

> >>>> >> the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a file

> >>>> >> on

> >>>> >> that

> >>>> >> machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

> > I had this happen once with the same "This not a valid company" error when

> > I transfered a clients data to a new server. The version.txt file in the

> > copied data was blank. I looked at a backup and the version .txt file had

> > 16.002 ( for PT complete 2006). Open the file named version.txt in the

> > company folder and see if there is a version number. I just added it to

> > the blank file and the comnpany opened right up. If it's blank, hopefully

> > someone with PT Complete 2004 can post it.

> Yes, that is one cause of this error message. It is worth checking for that

> file.

> For PT Complete 2004 the file should read:

> 14.02

Thanks for the tip. I actually found this one on a web site somewhere
and I already checked. The version.txt file was copied over and it
does have the same numbers as the old data files. I want to try
creating a peach tree backup like Lara said and then restore the
backup to the new server and see if that makes any difference. The
problem is I need to get everyone out of the files in order to do the
backup so I may do that this weekend.

Posted by Laura on June 1, 2007, 12:00 pm

Please log in for more thread options

>> >> would you like me to try opening up the company? I have PT 2004

>> >> complete.

>> >> If you want me to try, e-mail me the backup file or winzip the entire

>> >> contents of the company folder.

>> >>>> Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete

>> >>>> if

>> >>>> you

>> >>>> want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at

>> >>>> soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the

>> >>>> company

>> >>>> folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

>> >>> It is PT complete.

>> >>>> > What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and

>> >>>> > paste

>> >>>> > it

>> >>>> > all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any

>> >>>> > missing

>> >>>> > files but i will try the backup.

>> >>>> >> How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making

>> >>>> >> a

>> >>>> >> PT

>> >>>> >> backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW

>> >>>> >> company

>> >>>> >> on

>> >>>> >> the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a

>> >>>> >> file

>> >>>> >> on

>> >>>> >> that

>> >>>> >> machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

>> > I had this happen once with the same "This not a valid company" error

>> > when

>> > I transfered a clients data to a new server. The version.txt file in

>> > the

>> > copied data was blank. I looked at a backup and the version .txt file

>> > had

>> > 16.002 ( for PT complete 2006). Open the file named version.txt in the

>> > company folder and see if there is a version number. I just added it to

>> > the blank file and the comnpany opened right up. If it's blank,

>> > hopefully

>> > someone with PT Complete 2004 can post it.

>> Yes, that is one cause of this error message. It is worth checking for

>> that

>> file.

>> For PT Complete 2004 the file should read:

>> 14.02

> Thanks for the tip. I actually found this one on a web site somewhere

> and I already checked. The version.txt file was copied over and it

> does have the same numbers as the old data files. I want to try

> creating a peach tree backup like Lara said and then restore the

> backup to the new server and see if that makes any difference. The

> problem is I need to get everyone out of the files in order to do the

> backup so I may do that this weekend.

Ruling out any network issues you might try that on a local computer first.
Then take that new backup file and restore it on the server.