Where does Quickbooks store its data?

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I was given a HD that has gone bad and I need to rescue the data saved by Quickbooks. Where does Quickbooks save data by default?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '09 at 17:01

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From here:

http://forums.quickbooksusers.com/archive/index.php/t-24056.html

Looks like:

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks Pro\[your company data file]

answered Aug 30 '09 at 17:01

Jarvin

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 01 '11 at 23:56

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For Windows 7, the files are located at C:/users/username/Documents/intuit/quickbooks/company files

edited Dec 01 '11 at 23:56

Simon Sheehan

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answered Dec 01 '11 at 23:54

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 30 '09 at 17:04

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The default is usually along these lines:

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks\Components

but it would be easier to run a DIR search (or find on Linux) over the hard drive to see where most of the .qbw files are:

DIR /S *.qbw

answered Aug 30 '09 at 17:04

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 00:09

For Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions 14 & 17 on Windows (the versions I have run) the company file is stored in C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Intuit\QuickBooks\Company Files by default.

Anyone viewing this post like myself may also be interested to know that the user-specific config file for a client installation is stored at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Intuit\Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions 17.0\QBWUSER.INI (change the version number with your version).

Where does Quickbooks store its data?

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