How to Solve “This Is Not A QuickBooks Data File Or Is Damaged” Error on Windows/Mac?File Repair Tool Blog

Now-a-days, one of the most commonly used accounting application is QuickBooks accounting software providing full audit trail capabilities, double-entry accounting functions etc. QuickBooks file is undoubtedly ideal for both small scale business as well as a large scale business as it helps you in storing and sharing all the information regarding employees, services, vendors, customers etc. This software maintains the stored records and saves in a file with.QBW extension. Apart from computer, this file is also supported by several portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad etc so that you are able to access your business related data in any place where you need.

Due to various logical reasons, this file like any other file on your system may get corrupted. In most of the corruption situation, QBW file becomes unreadable leading to inaccessibility of the critical accounting records. In such situations, when you have backup of the QBW file then you don’t worry but if not you starting worrying as this files contains your crucial stuffs. No need to worry as you can opt for effective third-party tool which will able to resolve your problem.

When your QBW file gets corrupted, you come across below mentioned error:

This is not a QuickBooks data file or is damaged”

Or

“An error occurred when QuickBooks tried to access the company file.”

When you are getting the above mentioned error messages on your computer screen then you must understand that your QuickBooks files has got corrupted leading to inaccessibility of file records.

Reason behind QuickBooks corruption:

 QuickBooks file gets corrupted due to following reasons:

• Virus attack results in infecting QuickBooks database of thus making the file inaccessible.
• While using or accessing the QuickBooks file, power cut occurs leads to generate error database due to which it get inaccessible.
• Hard disk errors and RAM errors results in affecting the entire information of QuickBooks file.
• Improper system shutdown also affects the QuickBooks file.
• Network connection failure or networking errors may also leads to corruption of QBW files.

Resolution:

You need to follow the below mentioned steps for recovering the above error completely and easily:

• Perform restoration from an updated backup. (Note: You must save the backup file always on other storage media for ensuring safety.)

In the case of backup file inaccessibility or unavailability, make use of use powerful third party tool.

Data Recovery using third party tool:

QuickBooks Repair Tool is the most reliable and efficient solution to repair all the files from your corrupted or damaged QuickBooks without any data loss. It performs the complete scan on the QBW file and able to recover the entire records. It helps in restoring the recovered QBW files at the user defined location. It fixes all QuickBooks errors effectively thus making your file accessible. This tool is extremely safe as they it does not harm the original file because the repair process is carried on the copy of the original file. The entire transactions are recovered by this software in their unique currencies. It provides streamlined recovery process and has automatic updating efficiency. It is easy to use and has user friendly interface so no need of any technical knowledge and can be easily used by non-technical users also.

how to fix QuickBooks Damaged Error

Step 1: Click on the ‘Select File’ button if you know the location of QuickBooks file or select ‘Search Files’ if you don’t know the location of file.

Step 2: Click the ‘Scan File’ button for scanning the selected file.

Step 3: To see the preview of scanned company information click on the ‘Company’ button.

Step 4: By clicking on ‘Customer’ button, you can see the customer related information.

Step 5: If you want to see the information of vendors click on the ‘vendor’ button.

Step 6: For getting employees related information click on ‘Employees’ button.

Step 7: Now click on the ‘Repair’ button, a ‘Save As’ dialog box will appear select version, path and then click on the ‘Start’ button.

Step 8: If repair process is successfully completed then a message will appear as ‘repair process completed successfully’. Now click ‘OK’ and close the box and you are done.