How to Fix QuickBooks is Unable to Open This Company File

by Steve M. QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor

QuickBooks accounting software is used by people worldwide, but at times while using this amazing software, the user might not be able to open the company file. The user might come across the error message stating “QuickBooks won’t open you company file” or “QuickBooks is unable to open this company file”. This error can be very much frustrating for the users to tackle with, as it is pretty time consuming to tackle any such issue. Also, it can be very annoying, if the user is unable to access the basic functions on QuickBooks.

When this error occurs you may see the following error messages:

QuickBooks Unable To Backup Company File

Backup failed.

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Factors causing the QuickBooks won’t open company file

QuickBooks company file got damaged or corrupted
Or same file is opened on a shared network
Also, if the user is using wrong methods to open certain file
The error can also be seen, if wrong QuickBooks version is used to open the file

How to fix the QuickBooks Won't Open Company File error?

The error can be easily fixed by following any of the methods below, let us have a look:

Method 1: Renaming the company file

The very first step is to open the QuickBooks company file folder location
And then, the user should right click the company file
Followed by clicking on rename
Changing the name of the file
Also, the user needs to ensure that this new name doesn’t exceeds 3 letters
And the last step is to rename the .TLG file

Method 2: Opening the company file directly from QuickBooks Desktop

The very first step is to move to the file
And then click on open or restore company
Followed by selecting the type of file, which is to be opened
The next step is to navigate to the folder that the file is located
After that select the file
And hit open option, and you are good to go

This drives us to the conclusion of this post, where we hope that the information shared in might be of some help in fixing the unable to open QuickBooks company file on network. However, for any further query or if the error persists, the user can get in touch with our QuickBooks enterprise support team via our toll-free number i.e. +1-800-969-7370.

Our team of experts and certified QuickBooks professionals will help you in fixing the issue.