Steps To Minimizing and Preventing Data Damage in QuickBooks
Data damage in QuickBooks is classified into List damage, where lists such as the Chart of Accounts, Vendors List, and Customers List are damaged. Transaction damage entails transactions such as bills, invoices, payments, and checks that are damaged, and Link damage, where the links connecting transactions, such as the link between an invoice and a payment is damaged. Corrupt list data would cause most vendors or customers to be misplaced, while invoices and payments get associated with the wrong accounts. A corrupt QuickBooks file can cause severe damage if it is connected to any outside reporting programs. If the programs use automatic sync managers to connect to QuickBooks , users could encounter incorrect reporting in those programs or even a failure in the sync process itself. Data corruption can most commonly be fixed by using tools provided within the QuickBooks Software program, however, be advised that fixing the corruption without reducing the size of your data file mea...