quickbooks 2008 file associations

When you are in QB 2008 and you select the 'old' company file it should ask if you want to update the file. Then, when you say yes, it will update it to for 2008. The file name and location will remain the same so that might be what is confusing you???

Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business

Because the user can have multiple versions of the program on their machine who's to say what the desired behavior should be. If you hover above the icon for the file long enough windows will display the version lasted used to open the file. Many accountants can have the latest version 2008 but the majority of their clients can still be using an earlier versions.

You did understand that you had to uninstall 2007 before installing 2008 if you wanted the file associations to be as you describe. Otherwise they are correct.

That's an interesting statement. I tried double clicking on a 2007 file and it errored out. I could double click on a 2008 file and it would launch correctly. A check of the file associations in windows explorer shows Quickbooks Laucher as the program to open the file. I would have expected either the last program installed OR the version last used on that file to open up.

You aren't just double click on the file name are you? You can do that with a Word or Excel file and it will start the program. However, that will NOT work with QB files. You need to start QB and then select File, Open or Restore and select the file name from there. I hope that helps.

Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business

Oops--in my last reply I was talking about qbb or qbm files that you have to be in the QB Program to open. When you double click on the qbw it should open in the last version of QB that is was opened in--so if you updated the file & used it in 2008, then it would now open in

Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business

Oops--in my last reply I was talking about qbb or qbm files that you have to be in the QB Program to open. When you double click on the qbw it should open in the last version of QB that is was opened in--so if you updated the file & used it in 2008, then it would now open in

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As for a reason, I can think of several--the first being that something in the '08 file format isn't compatible w/ '07.

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I had my QB versions messed up. I forgot that 2008 is only installed on my other computer.

It was 2006 (did not work) & 2007 (worked). And of course, I can't replicate the error this morning. Double clicking on the 2006 file worked as expected with no error message.

Oh--you had the QB gremlins playing with you again! They do that when you least expect it! Glad they're gone now! Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business

Oh--you had the QB gremlins playing with you again! They do that when you least expect it! Glad they're gone now!

It depends on which ones are bugging you at the time and whether it is tax season or not! What is really bad is when they are both around at the same time! Then you don't know who did what and when and they blame each other!

Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business