QuickBooks have made business independent for their tasks associated with finance and accounting. For day to day accounting tasks, QuickBooks is the most trusted and reliable software. QuickBooks also allows you to create a backup of the company file and data. But sometimes QuickBooks may not be able to create a backup of the company file which results in occurrence of error ‘QuickBooks unable to backup the company file’.
Causes for occurrence of Error - QuickBooks unable to backup the company file
- Company file backup may have been saved to an external drive.
- Size of the company file may exceed 3 GB.
- Programs other than QuickBooks might be running in the background.
- There may be .ADR extension in the file name.
- Backup might have been restored over the existing company file.
- Company file name might be having special characters.
Some of the errors associated with QuickBooks unable to backup the company file are:
QuickBooks error 343 or C=422.
QuickBooks error 6190,816.
QuickBooks error 3371.
Some of the troubleshooting to fix QuickBooks unable to backup the company file: Solution 1: By renaming the company files.
Reach to the file name and then go to the option of ‘Rename’ option. Now, you need to enter a new file name and you don’t have to enter the special characters in the company file name,
Solution 2: Repairing the company file. Download the QuickBooks file doctor tool and then get it installed. Run this tool and this will troubleshoot any data damage.
Solution 3: Using the same version of QuickBooks. From the QuickBooks file manager, find the version which was used to restore the backup file. Same version of QuickBooks should be used.
Solution 4: Avoid overwriting existing files. You need to save the file in an easily accessible location of the system If there is a dialogue box which states that ‘the file name exists. Would you like to overwrite this file?’ Click on No and change the name of the file.
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