Can i delete qbw.tlg

Do not make a back-up to an external drive or flash drive, always backup to a resident drive first, then copy the back-up file to your external drive or flash drive.

It's QuickBooks job to create the appropriate file extensions, your job is to leave them alone. Keep your 'completely verified' QuickBooks Back-ups current. That keeps your QBW. In the event of a back-up failure, always run the QuickBooks Verify utility, prior to performing any Rebuild of your data. Additional forms of corruption, typically associated with the integrity of the file structure, can also prevent the resetting of the transaction log following what appears to be a successful backup.

Skip to main content. Connect with Us facebook twitter linkedin RSS. The path to the company file, or to the back-up location, is too long. With that said, you'll have to manually delete it. That should get you on the right track. If you have other questions, I'm happy to answer it for you. Just post it here as a comment and I'll take a look at it. Have a good one. I have so many files named QBBackup Temp and then the date. I have my files automatically backup but I cannot locate a file how can I find my most recent backup?

You can use the wild card search from the Start menu to locate the most recent backup. Once the search is complete, check the Date Modified column , it will show the last date the file is touch.

But if you just tried to sign in to an older file with a password, this file will have a current date. When you've found the file, take note of the location. You may also change the name of your company file so you can easily find it. I'll be around to help. Enter a search word. Turn off suggestions. Enter a user name or rank. Turn on suggestions. Showing results for.

Search instead for. Did you mean:. Connect with and learn from others in the QuickBooks Community. That means that you should be using the QuickBooks backup feature, and including the TLG file in your set of files that are backed up daily or at least very often.

It adds one more level of safety to your backup plan, in case you run into an odd situation. Sometimes, for example, you can have damaged data in your QBW file that just cannot be fixed. The damage may not be noticeable right away, so your daily backups might also be corrupted.

A good QBB backup and matching TLG file may be what you need to get back to the point before the damage occurred, and then move forward to your current state.

Note that if you delete the TLG file, QuickBooks will just start another, but it will have limited use as it is incomplete. From that point on the TLG file will grow again, holding all transactions since that backup. However, not all backup files are equal.

QuickBooks will only delete the TLG file if you make a manual backup with the verify option on. In addition, this must be a manual backup , selecting backup from the File menu. A scheduled backup will not perform this function, even if complete verification is selected.

The TLG file and your company file must match. Here are the files after a manual backup with the verify option on. So, my recommendations are:. Tags: Backup , Company File. Category : General Tips. Very interesting about the automatic scheduled backup not doing the same thing as the manual one, Charlie.

Why is that? They may have a reason, it may just be because that is the way they implemented it. We may never know…. Just one question on your last example. Your example shows a. Is it because subsequent transactions have been entered just prior to the backup creation date? I think creating a backup should NOT increase the. Is my understanding correct?

Thank you. VS Lingam: There are times when a backup with full verification WILL make the file slightly larger — the verification process may have adjusted some information in the file to correct problems that were resolved. The sample file I used in this test was somewhat small, I had planned on using a very large file but I ran into some issues with it not passing verification so I went ahead and used this one.

If the. Jan, when you do the manual backup with complete verification, the transaction log is essentially erased and recreated, empty. ANy new transactions that are created are added from that point on. So that the TLG file has every transaction since the backup was made. If you delete the TLG file yourself, QuickBooks will create a new one, but it will only have the transactions from that time, not all since the backup. Therefore it is, essentially, useless to do anything.

Ron, for some situations, that may not be practical. Only one user can be logged in, and for some large files this with full verification can take a very long time. I do believe that backups should be done on a very regular basis. And I personally think that the TLG file is of limited use, it is really only a last ditch disaster recovery issue.

But, backups are inconvenient, and when something is inconvenient people tend to not do them. For some people, a full blown manual verified QuickBooks backup procedure is too painful to do on a daily basis…. It should be trivial in a multi-user environment to program the necessary backup when the last user logs out, timing out inactive users, so that such a backup can be performed overnight, which should address most cases.

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