Quick Books

[tom baker]

I am using Intuit Quick Books professional, I have a desktop PC and a laptop. The QuickBooks data files are set up on each computers C: drive, there does not seem to be a way to move the data files to a network server (of course Quick Books has a network version), but I can copy the data files from my laptop to my network server and then from there to my Desktop??

 

[dduffee260]

Re: Quick Books

Tom, we have been on Quickbooks for 8 years now. I think you can do a back-up to a cd or some other type of back-up, then restore it to the computer you wanted to make the copy to. I didn't do a whole lot of the Quickbooks stuff here but my wife did. If this does not work the let me know and I will bow down on my knees and beg her for the secret.

 

[hardworkingstiff]

Re: Quick Books

What if you were to just send the data file as an attachment to yourself?

I once burned the data file to a CD, then tried to open it. Since it was not a rewriteable CD, Quickbooks wouldn't let me even open the file.

<edit: Send the data file in an email is what I was trying to say>

[ November 30, 2005, 06:15 PM: Message edited by: hardworkingstiff ]

 

[charlie b]

Re: Quick Books

You have a desktop and a notebook. Where did a network come into the picture? Is one of those two computers part of a network, or there a third computer in the mix?

As far as copying files from one machine to another machine, the simplest way is to use a USB jump drive. They are getting so cheap these days that you probably can get one free with every purchase of a bowl of soup.

But if the issue is having both computers have access to the same data, so that whichever one you are using has the current data, then the only way I can think of is the way dduffy's wife uses. Do a "File\backup" (onto the jump drive) before you walk away from one machine, and do a "File\restore" (from the jump drive) when you get to the other machine. It's a bit of a pain, but the only way that it can be done without buying the network version of the program.

 

[ty]

Re: Quick Books

Tom,
The best way that we've found is to store all info on a portable drive (such as a zip drive) and just USB connect the drive to whichever computer you're working on at the time.

Saving it to a disc, and then trying to open it on another machine, will probably not work the way you want it to.

You can, of course but the network version for best results.

 

[tom baker]

Re: Quick Books

Sorry all I have a home network.
I thank you all for your help.
The USB drive will work. I have a program called All Sync that I use to sync my laptop files to my file server, I'll try it.
With most programs, for example MS Word you can set the file storage location. But not with Quickbooks.