How To Download A Quickbooks Backup File

Select a folder to decide where to save your restored company file.

How to download a quickbooks backup file. In the import path field click browse and choose the location of your exported quickbooks data. Set up rewind backups for quickbooks online and it will automatically backup your company files. If needed click the save in drop down arrow and navigate to the location where you want to restore the backup file. Select the backup file click save and respond to any messages quickbooks may display. Choose the name of your company file and click save.

In the quickbooks trial choose file open or restore company to open the backup file. In the third column under type you can see the file type shows as quickbooks company backup file rather than quickbooks company file. I m here to get you back to business every step of the way. In quickbooks go to the file menu and select open or restore company. In the apply password window enter a password for the file if you wish to have one.

You can undo mistakes and restore deleted data with rewind and you also have the option to copy quickbooks online data between files. But in quickbooks online if you delete something it s gone forever. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns. File open company in mac after it s restored take these two steps also read related articles below step 1 in quickbooks for windows choose help update quickbooks. Set the file extension to cwq.

Pictured here is a manual backup of the same file. Select restore a backup copy and then next. Select the backup file and click open. In the version drop down menu select your version of quickbooks or quickbooks online. It should look like this.

Launch quickbooks and choose the file open or restore company command. In the import from drop down menu select quickbooks. Select local backup and then next. A regular working quickbooks file a qbw file will appear in the file listing as pictured below. Open your quickbooks company file in the upper left corner of the program window choose file back up to quickbooks for windows.