Re: Windows 10
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 2:35 am
Thanks and Thanks.
It's already been downloaded to Intuit's "tender mercies" and they're going to play with it. It's supposed to be compatible but apparently there are glitches in translation to force the file to open. I have my doubts that the file is actually intrinsically-corrupted since it did worked under QB-2008, and even backups made several years ago won't open. The techie said it even could be a subtlety in how QB-2017 installed on my PC and interacts with the internal security software...
We'll wait and see for the moment if their Tech-Support can get the file to open and re-save as a QB-2017 file. Apparently Intuit's tech-support is spending a lot of time and effort dealing-with problems created by the Windows-10 Upgrade for their software-users, and not just legacy-users.
This is why I have paper records of many of my projects at vital points in the project, and my digital back-ups. Conceptually a digital-record is "safe" But if the software can't access the media, or open the file, what good is the digital-archive? Who even has a 5-1/4" floppy-drive that actually works anymore....or even a 3-1/2" hard-floppy drive-slot. Or the infamous 100mB Zip-drives... Or has the software-trained technician to access the information.
I don't know if they still do this, but when I was in college in the 1980s the major railroads, mining companies and cartographers were still using inked-drawings on drafting-linen since properly stored linen-drawings are nearly-immortal, and it might be 100-years later that the drawing is needed for reference.
It's already been downloaded to Intuit's "tender mercies" and they're going to play with it. It's supposed to be compatible but apparently there are glitches in translation to force the file to open. I have my doubts that the file is actually intrinsically-corrupted since it did worked under QB-2008, and even backups made several years ago won't open. The techie said it even could be a subtlety in how QB-2017 installed on my PC and interacts with the internal security software...
We'll wait and see for the moment if their Tech-Support can get the file to open and re-save as a QB-2017 file. Apparently Intuit's tech-support is spending a lot of time and effort dealing-with problems created by the Windows-10 Upgrade for their software-users, and not just legacy-users.
This is why I have paper records of many of my projects at vital points in the project, and my digital back-ups. Conceptually a digital-record is "safe" But if the software can't access the media, or open the file, what good is the digital-archive? Who even has a 5-1/4" floppy-drive that actually works anymore....or even a 3-1/2" hard-floppy drive-slot. Or the infamous 100mB Zip-drives... Or has the software-trained technician to access the information.
I don't know if they still do this, but when I was in college in the 1980s the major railroads, mining companies and cartographers were still using inked-drawings on drafting-linen since properly stored linen-drawings are nearly-immortal, and it might be 100-years later that the drawing is needed for reference.