QB V5 QBW file disappears

Richard wrote: ...

One can only hope you have an additional copy of the previous file squirreled away somewhere or backed up that the update didn't mung on...

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Sounds indeed like the update was "helpful" in touching your existing earlier version files and has "fixed" them for you.

Might look at the "last modified" dates and see if these coincide w/ the time of the upgrade--not guaranteed that the update process will have modified those or not, but would be telling if it agrees.

If you don't have another backup or can't find an unscathed copy, I can only suggest contacting Intuit to see if they have any remedy. I suspect the only remedies they're going to suggest you're not going to like...

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dpb

Very many thanks for your consideration and thoughtful comments. Sadly the last CD back up was well over one year ago and the thought of inputting all those blasted boring figures again is almost more than I can bear to think about.

This is a lesson to me and anyone else that whilst it is so easy to use an additional drive for speedy big backups, at the end of the day there is nothing like having independent backups, apart from the added security in case of theft or fire etc. The stupid thing is that earlier yesterday I was briefly discussing this very subject with a neighbour, but I imagine the loss had already occurred quite unbeknown to me!

I wonder if anyone can remember the exact date that the last upgrade of QB Regular 2006 went out. I think it was within the last seven days that I had it.

Cheers

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A lesson I learned many years ago. I now keep several USB flash drives and rotate them on a near daily bases. They are cheap enough and you have 3 or more sources for recent backups should one fail.

The update of the 2006 version you had should not have affected your other files, BUT Is it possible you somehow opened the QB v5 file with the QB6 version? That would have changed the file structure to correspond with QB6.

Do you use windows? Do you keep restore points? It might be possible to restore windows to the date BEFORE you accepted the QB6 update. But, if the QB v5 file was opened with QB6 prior to that, then it won't be much help.

In his posting of Wed, 30 Apr 2008, L writes

Thanks for your posting. It would have been impossible for me to have opened my QB V5 file with QB 2006 Regular as it would have needed to go through the update process requiring me to type in Yes and giving me the option to back up so that I could go back to it. The other point is that I only have one file for QB v5 and so it is not a matter of selecting the file I want to work with. I open either QB v5t for one business or QB 2000 Regular for the other set of accounts, however I often have both applications running at the same time. I cannot recall if when an update comes through for the latest version, I am asked to close anything first, but this might be a factor in this sorry saga.

Yes and no. I run the office on Win 2000

All the best.

Richard

I would be interested in hearing from another user of QB 2006 Regular from the UK (in case location is a factor) as to when their last update came through.

Did you try calling Intuit to see if they can revert it it your version?

GC

Thought: The QB6 update overwrote a common file. You might try a repair on the QBv5 to see if it pulls back an older version of a common file. Of course that would break QB6.

Intuit could tell you what's up and point you at the right downloads to fix it, if this is the case.