Just a heads-up for those who do manual updates -- the R5 update to QB 2006 is available for download at:
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18 years ago
Just a heads-up for those who do manual updates -- the R5 update to QB 2006 is available for download at:
I just did an F2 and my version was displayed as QuickBooks Pro
2006 Release R3P However, When I did Help/Update QuickBooks/Update Now/Get Updates it made the checks for updates, and did not find any available. The Maintenance releases Last Checked field shows Sat, 02/25/2006 02:06 PM (MST)Is anyone else experiencing this or have an idea why I Update Now would not see R5?
QB does not fully update until you exit and start up again.
Mike Block - QuickBooks Tax Cut C.P.A. Intuit paid me to make QuickBooks better!
Mike its not seeing the R5 update. I tried from within a company using the manual update, even though mine is set to auto, tried from the open company window, tried closing the program and relaunching. I had to do a manual download and run the .exe
I agree. My former first answer suggested what usually worked. However, the R5 update only seems to work when manually downloaded..
Mike Block - QuickBooks Tax Cut C.P.A. Intuit paid me to make QuickBooks better!
My system also reported the same. There is no way to get the updates from within Quickbooks as of today.
A couple guesses.. Perhaps Intuit hasn't released the R5 patch to the automated qbupdate program until they are sure that it doesn't cause bigger problems elsewhere. Thus manual downloaders are defacto beta testers.
Another possibility...This is such an extensive patch that it can't be run from QB itself.
The patch process seemed quite longer than the R3 patch. However I didn't need to reboot (despite the warning). Curiously the first set of file coping went to 100% and then spent another 2 minutes copying more files, registering files & modules, etc.
The final phase seems to lock up at 87% , but it then resumes OK with no intervention.
After upgrading our server to R5, I tried to download updates again from within QB. No success. I will wait a while before updating the clients, since I would rather use the shared download update feature, if it becomes available later.
It is hard to benchmark this, but QB 2006 seems to load files a little faster now. We'll see what happens after we get it fully into a production mode.
*Watt
This is new to me. Mac users always have to download the patch.
Another possibility...R3 broke automatic update.
I think this oddity is more a function of the OS; WinXP doesn't need re-booting to complete module registration, whereas Win9x OSs do.
My WinXP Pro required rebooting.
It must be hard indeed since you havn't updated the clients yet.
Allan,
I didn't update a production client.
I did update the server, and a non-production client.
Both seem faster with R5, but as I wrote before, we will see if the initial impression is borne out.
So what is your speed assessment? I am impressed that you haven't developed a stance on that yet.... Perhaps this is a first for you. Evaluate first, and THEN talk ?
;)
*Watt
Hmm. Two XP machines here and one Win2000 machine did not.
It's my understanding that product manual updates are available first and then it becomes available from within the product via automatic updates. I've seen this happen for a few release patches. I don't think it's a cause for alarm in any way.
-Anon
We also see that updated files are R4. That may relate to a private R4 that QB did for a friend of mine.
Mike Block - QuickBooks Tax Cut C.P.A. Intuit paid me to make QuickBooks better!
I have not witnessed any speed issues to begin with. My overall impression is the 2006 is faster than previous versions.
That is true. Intuit did release R4 for a limited number of users.
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