subject: Thinking to Repair Corrupt QuickBooks File? Here Is a Solution [print this page] Thinking to Repair Corrupt QuickBooks File? Here Is a Solution
QuickBooks application saves the data in a QBW file. Two other files, such as .nd and .tlg are also used by it. All the information about the transaction and network connectivity is contained in these files. But when these files get corrupt, it overall affects the working of the QBW file. You become unable to open the QuickBooks file and unable to use the data that resides in it. At such situation, it becomes your primary concern to repair corrupt QuickBooks file. And this can be done with the help of a QuickBooks recovery tools.
To further clarify above issue, suppose you make an attempt to open QuickBooks file, you fail to open the file. In addition to failure, QBW throws an error message that looks exactly like this:
"QuickBooks is unable to open the company file. (-6000,-107)"
This error message does not occur every time. It is very intermittent.
Cause:
You are unable to open this company file as there was some issue for writing to the transaction log file.
Resolution:
For opening the company file, you need to perform intuit repair. Two solutions are discussed below. Problem can be solved by both of them.
Diagnostic tool of QuickBooks company file: Make use of this tool. Firstly, download it. And, then execute it. If the damage is detected by a tool, then you have two options along with you:
1.Data of the QuickBooksfile can be restored from a backup file.
2.Otherwise, you can go for a Technical Assistance to ask for a right measures to repair the QBW data file.
If no problem is detected in the company file, then it means that company file is OK. But if the problem is still encountered, then you should go for a second solution.
Rename QuickBooks file manually: QBW file can be manually renamed with the help of the following steps:
1.Select Start >> Search and search for the file with the help *.nd and *.tlg wildcards.
2.Rename the .nd file by a right click.
3.Add.old to the company file. That is YourCompanyFile.qbw.nd will be displayed like this 'xyz.qbw.nd.old'.
4.Repeat both the above two steps that is 2 and 3 for '.tlg' file.
5.At last, open the QuickBooks company file.
However, if the problem still remains same, then it is better to go for a third party QuickBooks file repair software. These tools perform intuit quickbooks recovery quite well. Such tools are simple and easy to use. For doing intuit recovery by these tools you do not have prior recovery experience. A well documented manual file comes along with the software that helps you how to perform recovery by this the tool.
