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Posted by Golden California Girls on April 30, 2008, 9:09 pm
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Richard wrote:
> In his posting of Wed, 30 Apr 2008, L writes
>> The update of the 2006 version you had should not have affected your
>> other files, BUT Is it possible you somehow opened the QB v5 file with
>> the QB6 version? That would have changed the file structure to
>> correspond with QB6.
>
> Thanks for your posting. It would have been impossible for me to have
> opened my QB V5 file with QB 2006 Regular as it would have needed to go
> through the update process requiring me to type in Yes and giving me the
> option to back up so that I could go back to it. The other point is
> that I only have one file for QB v5 and so it is not a matter of
> selecting the file I want to work with. I open either QB v5t for one
> business or QB 2000 Regular for the other set of accounts, however I
> often have both applications running at the same time. I cannot recall
> if when an update comes through for the latest version, I am asked to
> close anything first, but this might be a factor in this sorry saga.
>
>>
>> Do you use windows? Do you keep restore points?
>
> Yes and no. I run the office on Win 2000
>
> All the best.
>
> Richard
>
> I would be interested in hearing from another user of QB 2006 Regular
> from the UK (in case location is a factor) as to when their last update
> came through.
>
>> It might be possible to restore windows to the date BEFORE you
>> accepted the QB6 update. But, if the QB v5 file was opened with QB6
>> prior to that, then it won't be much help.
Thought: The QB6 update overwrote a common file. You might try a repair on the
QBv5 to see if it pulls back an older version of a common file. Of course that
would break QB6.
Intuit could tell you what's up and point you at the right downloads to fix it,
if this is the case.
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