How to Manually Install a Patch

Summary

I have a client who downloaded the R3 update to her computer. All went well. They use it in multi-user mode. When I tried to install the update on the other computers, I got the following message:RTPatch Error; Neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.

Question

I have a client who downloaded the R3 update to her computer. All went well. They use it in multi-user mode. When I tried to install the update on the other computers, I got the following message:RTPatch Error; Neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.

Answer

This applies to QuickBooks 6 and 99. To manually install the patch on other computers on the network: 1) Find the "Inet" folder in the directory where your data file is stored. 2) Open that folder from one of the machines that needs updating. 3) Double-click on the file named "qbupdate.bat". 4) You should see a dialog box that says it's updating the QuickBooks application on the local machine.