@James10 wrote:
You cannot restore it unless you have the exact version of quickbooks that created the backup, and you have absolutely no way of determining (from even the Properties) what version of quickbooks created the backup.
So you are out of luck.
And then even if you can figure out what version of quickbooks was used to create the backup, you will have to buy the older version and it probably is not available, even from Intuit.
Sound crazy? You are right.
It is unbelievable to me that Intuit has not addressed these compatibility issues. In my view the Quickbooks software product should bear a large warning on the label disclosing each version of Quickbooks is completely incompatible with all of the others.
Yes, I have just learnt that all QB versions are not compatible with each other. This is what I learnt from QB sales agent. These agents, supposedly licensed, can solve all compatibility problems for every conversion and restoration at a fee to be provided by specific quotation on every request. Users need ongoing technical support service. You cannot do it yourself. I wish that QB would reply that I was mistaken and that in fact there was a way to get this done by users themselves. This very extraordinary feature was not found in all other brands in the market. For all other products, you can safely assume that a later version must be able to read data of an earlier version, with handy and automated conversion of backup file.
