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Posted by Richard on April 29, 2008, 6:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options In his posting of Tue, 29 Apr 2008, dpb writes
>Richard wrote:
>...
>> C drive, but more recently I have used an additional internal hard
>>drive for this function.
>
>One can only hope you have an additional copy of the previous file
>squirreled away somewhere or backed up that the update didn't mung on...
>
>> Yesterday I needed to run QB 5 and was presented with a screen saying
>>"there is no company file open." This has never happened before and I
>>thought there had just been a glitch so went to file-open-company and
>>selected my file and was then presented with the message "this is not
>>a QuickBooks file" A feeling of total disbelief and horror struck me!
>> Now I need to say that also running on this computer is QuickBooks
>>Regular 2006 which I purchased for the e-mail function to operate some
>>other accounts. A few days ago I accepted an automatic update of this,
>>this is the only thing that I can think of that might have effected
>>my QB v 5 files. Perhaps this is a long shot but at the moment I am
>>clutching at straws!
>> What is strange to me at least is that the files with the QBW
>>extension now have the QB Regular 2006 icon rather than the old QB v5
>>icon. I tried altering the open with and that did not allow me to
>>open the file in QB v5. If I try to open a copy of this QBW file in
>>the QB Regular 2000 it asks me to go through the upgrade procedure
>>but then the last year of entries is missing.
>...
>
>Sounds indeed like the update was "helpful" in touching your existing
>earlier version files and has "fixed" them for you.
>
>Might look at the "last modified" dates and see if these coincide w/
>the time of the upgrade--not guaranteed that the update process will
>have modified those or not, but would be telling if it agrees.
>
>If you don't have another backup or can't find an unscathed copy, I can
>only suggest contacting Intuit to see if they have any remedy. I
>suspect the only remedies they're going to suggest you're not going to
>like...
>
>--
dpb
Very many thanks for your consideration and thoughtful comments. Sadly
the last CD back up was well over one year ago and the thought of
inputting all those blasted boring figures again is almost more than I
can bear to think about.
This is a lesson to me and anyone else that whilst it is so easy to use
an additional drive for speedy big backups, at the end of the day there
is nothing like having independent backups, apart from the added
security in case of theft or fire etc. The stupid thing is that earlier
yesterday I was briefly discussing this very subject with a neighbour,
but I imagine the loss had already occurred quite unbeknown to me!
I wonder if anyone can remember the exact date that the last upgrade of
QB Regular 2006 went out. I think it was within the last seven days
that I had it.
Cheers
--
Richard
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