Peachtree 2004 "This is not a valid company" error

Hello,

I'm having a problem with Peachtree 2004. We have it setup so that it runs from two workstations and all the peachtree data is stored on a file server on the LAN. We're in the process of replacing the file server so I have copied all the peachtree data from the old server to the new server.

The workstations have this network folder mapped as drive Z. When I change the mapping of drive Z to point to the new server (which has an exact copy of the data on the old server) and then I try to open the company I get an error that says "This is not a valid Peachtree company. Please try again."

If I put a new installation of peachtree 2004 on a third computer I can open the company. So I uninstalled peachtree from one of the other workstations, rebooted, and reinstalled peachtree 2004. Still it says "this is not a valid Peachtree company, please try again." Although it will open the old folder with no problem.

Can anyone help me? Please?

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blincolnw
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How are you getting the company onto the bad computer? Try making a PT backup file on another computer and then do a restore into a NEW company on the bad one. Your error message implies that you are missing a file on that machine which is causing PT to not recognize the company.

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Laura

What I did was Copy all the data from the existing server and paste it all onto the new server. I have checked and I don't see any missing files but i will try the backup.

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blincolnw

Is this PT complete accounting or PT accounting? If it is complete if you want, I could try opening the company file if you e-mail it to me at soundbookkeeping at gmail dot com. Just zip all of the files in the company folder if you don't have a working backup file (ptb).

Reply to
Laura

It is PT complete.

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blincolnw

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Laura

I had this happen once with the same "This not a valid company" error when I transfered a clients data to a new server. The version.txt file in the copied data was blank. I looked at a backup and the version .txt file had

16.002 ( for PT complete 2006). Open the file named version.txt in the company folder and see if there is a version number. I just added it to the blank file and the comnpany opened right up. If it's blank, hopefully someone with PT Complete 2004 can post it.

Tom

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tom

Yes, that is one cause of this error message. It is worth checking for that file.

For PT Complete 2004 the file should read:

14.02
Reply to
Laura

Thanks for the tip. I actually found this one on a web site somewhere and I already checked. The version.txt file was copied over and it does have the same numbers as the old data files. I want to try creating a peach tree backup like Lara said and then restore the backup to the new server and see if that makes any difference. The problem is I need to get everyone out of the files in order to do the backup so I may do that this weekend.

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blincolnw

Ruling out any network issues you might try that on a local computer first. Then take that new backup file and restore it on the server.

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Laura

I'm not sure what it could be.

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blincolnw

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