How to fix corrupted QuickBooks data

To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, we've imported this tutorial on data recovery from QuickBooks Professional Advisor Joe Woodard. It was was originally published on our US sister site AccountingWEB.com.

QuickBooks is as bug free as any product on the market and is much less troublesome than most applications. But QuickBooks is a database and all databases - and all applications - do have issues from time to time. Intuit's data repair department will be able to help if you encounter problems, as will qualified QuickBooks Professional Advisors. There is always an inconvenience - and sometimes an additional cost - involved in sending the file to Intuit for repair, so this article sets out to explain how you can reduce the risk of QuickBooks data corruptions, and cope with them when they happen.

Reducing the Risk of File Corruption
There are numerous steps you can take with your clients to reduce the risk of QuickBooks file corruption:
  • Using the Product Information Window
  • Reducing file sizes
  • Monitoring database fragments
  • Network management issues
Repairing QuickBooks Data Files
The article considers different types of data file corruption and methods to repair them:
Repairing problems detected by the Verify Data Utility
Using the QBWIN.LOG to identify data verification problems
 
If the methods outlined in the article are not effective you may have to refer the file to Intuit or a third party professional for data repair services.
 
About the author
Joe Woodard is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and Intuit Solution Provider who has taught over 20,000 QuickBooks consultants across theUSA. Joe works with Intuit, state CPA societies, and Atlanta-area CPA firms to present advanced QuickBooks instruction to accounting professionals and software consultants. Joe recently hosted the first annual "Scaling New Heights" QuickBooks conference in Atlanta.
 
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Accounting Software Required: London Taxi Company

Anonymous | | Permalink
HI   We are a taxi company Hummingbird Cars in London. We provide Airport Transfer service from all london airports.   We are new in the business and we require to buy a good accounting software. Can anyone please advice which software will be suitable for us as we are a small business and also which one will be relaiable and affordable.   http://www.hummingbirdcars.com    Thank you 

 

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appacc | | Permalink

Ask your accountant!

If he does not use the software you choose, you are in trouble.

We had a VAT inspector in here the other day and he considered Quickbooks to be the most difficult to work with. We would turn away a potential new client who uses QB.

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Anonymous | | Permalink

I agree, ask your accountant.

We use QuickBooks for our in house accounts and recommend it to clients.  We have done so for years and highly rate it, even with the grief of the 2008 upgrade or rather downgrade.  We are a 5 partner accounting practice with 30 staff.

Vat inspection, never a problem, with the QuickBooks aspects anyway.  Just a matter of ensuring the right reports are prepared.

A happy (except for the 2008 downgrade) Quickbooks fan.