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I am having problems moving a copy of my quickbooks files from a Windows 7 system to an XP laptop. It says file is invalid or damaged.

I seem to remember a long time ago when I moved the other way (from XP to Win7) that it may have had to convert the file. Is this my problem? Is the QBW file in a format Windows 7 can read but not XP? And if so, is there a way to convert the file back to XP?

I just want to have a backup copy around and I have many XP machines but only one Win 7 machine.
 
JOhnH said:
I am having problems moving a copy of my quickbooks files from a Windows 7 system to an XP laptop. It says file is invalid or damaged.

I seem to remember a long time ago when I moved the other way (from XP to Win7) that it may have had to convert the file. Is this my problem? Is the QBW file in a format Windows 7 can read but not XP? And if so, is there a way to convert the file back to XP?

I just want to have a backup copy around and I have many XP machines but only one Win 7 machine.
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Are you running the same version of QB on both machines? The OS shouldn't matter, but the same, or later, version is required.
 
been a while since I've used QB, but are you trying to move the actual file, or a true QB Backup file? And, ditto above - same QB version everywhere?
 
The version of Windows should have nothing to do with it. If anything, it the version of QB. What version of QB do you have?
If you just want a backup of the QB data, just make a copy of the *.QBW file. If you want a running copy of the program on another computer, just install it on the other computer.
You're not trying to just copy the Quickbooks folder, are you?
 
I am using the same version of QB (2009)on both.
I did a new install on the XP laptop.
I have tried to restore a backup file and I have tried to copy over company file.
 
The problem has been identified.
Stupidity.
Mine.


I have QBooks 2009 on my Win 7 Computer.
I pulled out my Quickbooks file and installed qbooks 1999 on my XP computer.
Stupid. I am installing 2009 now and it is going well.
 
"pilot error" ... where have we heard that before? :)
 
Your solution was easier than mine. After I sold me camera store in 2004 I continued to use the same version of QB. I was only using it for invoicing clients buying my photography projects. Without employees I had no use for the annual changes of Tax Tables and other employee referenced files. I'd been using Win XP. So in 2010 or so I bought a new PC which was equipped with Windows 7. It wouldn't support my version of QB, so I had to buy the latest QB version but I don't subscribe to the annual Tax Table updates.
Another complication, not with QB, was that all my hundreds of greeting cards and other word processing was on Adobe Pagemaker. Win 7 wouldn't support it, so I had to buy the costly Adobe In-Design to get into my old Pagemaker files. But: It included the latest version of Photoshop, so it could have been worse.

HR
 
JOhnH said:
I pulled out my Quickbooks file and installed qbooks 1999 on my XP computer.
Stupid. I am installing 2009 now and it is going well.
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QB 1999! Did that version still have the chisel and abacus? :D

I've been on QB since '90 (?), and love how they stop supporting their stuff in ever-shorter intervals. My current version 2009 (?) keeps warning me that it will be unsupported as of May 31st. Ka-ching!

As if accounting principles change.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
 
Jay Honeck said:
QB 1999! Did that version still have the chisel and abacus? :D

I've been on QB since '90 (?), and love how they stop supporting their stuff in ever-shorter intervals. My current version 2009 (?) keeps warning me that it will be unsupported as of May 31st. Ka-ching!

As if accounting principles change.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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They've done the same thing to me in the past with Quicken. At that point it will no longer download from my bank or investment sites. I hope they don't do this again anytime soon.
 
My office is still using Microsoft Office 2000 Standard......Not supported but still works.....By the way, we had revenue just under of $1.5 billion last year....cheap bastards
 
Jay Honeck said:
QB 1999! Did that version still have the chisel and abacus? :D

I've been on QB since '90 (?), and love how they stop supporting their stuff in ever-shorter intervals. My current version 2009 (?) keeps warning me that it will be unsupported as of May 31st. Ka-ching!

As if accounting principles change.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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I have been updating QBooks every 5 years for one reason or another. I don't really use many of the features. My business POS software exports all of our sales transactions, including income accounts into QB. I pay my bills through QB which updates all my expense accounts. I have a payroll service that handles that function and I import those numbers to QB.
Everything else is done through my POS software, including invoices, sales tax calculations, statements etc.

But it is a repository for all of my financial data and I would be up a creek if I lost it.
 
Jay Honeck said:
QB 1999! Did that version still have the chisel and abacus? :D

I've been on QB since '90 (?), and love how they stop supporting their stuff in ever-shorter intervals. My current version 2009 (?) keeps warning me that it will be unsupported as of May 31st. Ka-ching!

As if accounting principles change.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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Yea, I bit the bullet and upgraded to 2013 as well. I am now finding that I need to add more RAM or the PC locks up and / or runs lethargically slow, Arrgh!!!

Intuit sucks and they could care less!!!
 
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