Tag: Company File
Understanding QuickBooks and the QBWin.log (Part 1)
As the number and expertise of QuickBooks users grows, there is also a growing interest in understanding how QuickBooks works, and why QuickBooks errors develop. Central to what is happening when QuickBooks reports an error message, or fails to verify, is the QBWin.log file. There are a lot of complexities to understanding the QBWin.log file; [...]
Wrapping Up – Lots of Little Tidbits in QuickBooks 2013
Here’s a mish-mash list of little things that I’ve noticed about QuickBooks 2013, to wrap up my long series of “what’s new” articles. I’m sure that I’ve missed some things! PLEASE NOTE that much of this is based on information from an early release candidate of QuickBooks 2013 – it is possible that some features [...]
QuickBooks Advanced Inventory Database Problems
A couple of years ago, Intuit introduced a new subscription based add-on to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, Advanced Inventory. In its initial year this new feature provided “multi-site” capabilities, allowing users to track inventory quantities for each item by specific physical locations. This gave users the ability to create up to 200 Inventory Sites such as [...]
QuickBooks File Doctor Finally On Duty (Part 2)
Last month in my article QuickBooks File Doctor Finally On Duty (Part 1) I talked about the new QuickBooks File Doctor tool from Intuit that combines the features of the Company File Diagnostic Tool (CFDT) and the Network Connectivity Diagnostic Tool (NCDT). In this article we will look at the tool’s “Networking” related functions. While [...]
QuickBooks File Doctor Finally On Duty (Part 1)
Several months ago, Intuit leaked word that there would be a new ‘diagnostic tool’ that would be released to deal with a variety of Company file and networking issues. Preliminary information indicated that this new tool combined the tests associated with both the prior Company File Diagnostic Tool (CFDT) and the Network Connectivity Diagnostic Tool [...]
Can I Share My QuickBooks File on Google Drive or Dropbox?
I’m seeing this question quite often these days, and the answer is really simple. If you are talking about just passing a copy of the file around from one person to another with only one person using the file at a time, sure, go ahead, use a service like Google Drive or Dropbox if you [...]
Why Can’t QuickBooks Restore Backups Correctly?
Spring is in the air and that makes me sneeze, which makes me easily irritated. So I’m going to take it out on Intuit today, to complain about the way that QuickBooks handles backups, particularly how backups are restored. Making backups of your critical data is an essential business process, one that I find that [...]
QuickBooks 2012 R5 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2012 R5 update to the U.S. versions of QuickBooks. There are quite a few changes here, ranging from minor and cosmetic issues all the way up to some major changes. There are some important changes to permissions and data access as well as some fixes for tricky issues in Enterprise price/cost [...]
QuickBooks 2012: Wrapping up The Rest
Finishing up on my series of articles on QuickBooks 2012, here is a last round of different things that have been added or improved in Quickbooks 2012. This is a mishmash of various features, including: One Click Transactions Contributed Reports Batch Timesheets Help and Search Improvements Enterprise Multiuser Find & Select Transaction tab Memorized transactions [...]
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