Opening a Quick books file

Opening a Quick books file

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A client has sent me a quickbooks back-up in a QBB format on a memory stick. Client use desktop version so cannot access it online.

For the life of me I cannot open it.

I have asked Mr Google and I have phoned customer services, who told me to download a trial of QB and try opening it that way.

It has taken 1 hour and I am still downloading QB's. (it has only downloaded 29%). I am not even sure what it is downloading, the actual programme or the software to download the actual programme.

Anyone have any ideas on other ways to open this file?

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Adrian Pearson
By Adrian Pearson
28th May 2015 17:36

What do you want to do with it?

Hi

If you need access to the data for the purposes of doing the client's year-end accounts then you could avoid dealing with the file altogether.

Sign up for a free trial at Checkmybooks and then get the client to upload the data directly for you. All of the balances and transactions will then be available for you to work with online :)

Let me know if you need any help.

Adrian
www.checkmybooks.co.uk

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By Captainblack
29th May 2015 07:14

Alternatively

The QBB format (quickbooks backup) is only 'restorable' into a QB company data file by the Quickbooks software. It's not possible to open a QBB in anything else. Therefore unless you have the QB desktop software the QBB is of no use to you.

However, as an alternative to checkmybooks, your client can easilly export the transactions (General Ledger), TB, P&L, BS, etc, into spreadsheets for you to work from.

Captain

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