Old Quickbooks years

Good day, @TrudyT. 

Thanks for posting to the Community. 

We can back up your QuickBooks company file to restored your data. Also, we can move it to your local hard drive to save all your data. However, transferring QuickBooks onto external hard drive is not possible.  Only the company file can back up in QuickBooks.

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You can check out these links for your reference: 

• Back up your QuickBooks Desktop company file 
• Move it to your local hard drive 

Please let me know if you need further help on this. I'm here to lend you a hand. Have a great day!

@TrudyT 

You may have 3 options:

1. Secure your backup file (i.e QBB), copy it to external/portable storage, then restore it

2. Create a new company file and transfer your oustanding data for beginning balance of each aacount.

3. Purchasing a 3rd party file compression service.