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When using a file on 2 different computers, should we select 'open the last company I worked on' or 'connect to a shared company'? One of our staff mostly uses our Sage files for all bookkeeping and reconciliations while another team member uses it…

Currently in order to do an automatic backup in Sage you must use the Automatic backup tool which uses Windows Task Scheduler in order to do the local backups. This has proved to be very inconsistent and not as reliable as the manual backups of course…

Hello Everyone, I upgraded Sage 50 CA Premium 2018 from Sage 50 premium 2016 in 2018. The software was working fine till now. My computer broke in Feb and I bought a new one. I installed the version 2018 and restore it from the backup. It was working…

SMUSERTASKS - if this is too technical of a question we can ignore it(delete). As a BW user for 28 years our file SMUSERTASKS has grown to nearly 10MB and takes 4 to 5 minutes to backup or restore (SYSTEM backup) . Should this file be this large and…

Hi and thanks for the help! Accountant was using simply accounting 2008. I've read through the advice here, downloaded Sage 2015. It will only let me open the old files in premium or quantrum. I tried both which seems to work, all our files appear intact…

I started going through the Chapter 3 steps in Bihn's Bins to get used to the software. I did backups in the places the book told me to. Now I need to go back to the original file for a project for the course I am taking. The original file has all…

A pdb from a 2019 backup has been restored in a one-off location separate from current, live data. I have installed Sage50 2019 on a separate machine. I tried installing without and with pointing to the restored data but neither worked. I tried having…

A data dump was made and restored on Sage 300 ERP. At the point of opening sage the below error message were gotten with the list of modules which are already installed. sage 300 has detected module update inconsistencies that requires activation. The…

Bonjour, Je tente de restaurer une sauvegarde et lorsque je veux ouvrir l'entreprise, le système m'indique "Impossible d'ouvrir el fichier... un fichier de données est manquant". Pourtant, mon fichier est restauré est au même endroit que mes fichiers…

Try to backup but it give message that file exceed 2GM max that sage can do. whent to the file and i can see 2gb file called errolog.txt. what should i so ? Thanks

I have a Sage 50 Drive company that I'm trying to open. it shows another user has it paused but that user is unable to reshare and stop share. Any ideas how we can restore the file from my local computer?

Ever since upgrading to the latest version of Sage we are unable to use the automatic backups (error attached) I've submitted a support request and was told to post here. this is going on several weeks and would like to get it resolved. any help?…

In Database Admin, restoring a Client's backup, I am getting an error, "SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM" What is this? I write reports, and get client databases to work in. This is the first time…

365 SOMETIMES creates a backup and other times does not. I have disconnected then connected again, go through all the prompts and still no current backup when i log onto office.com what the heck am i doing wrong??

Is there a way to restore an Archive file and set it up as a new company file? Our original backup file was corrupted. Thank you.

Dear, I am facing a problem in sage 300, I already have two companies in sage 300, but when I open a new company one old one company disconnected from data base, now my old company doesn't show any thing, kindly advise me ANY BODY HERE TO HELP OUT MY…

Dear, I am facing a problem in sage 300, I already have two companies in sage 300, but when I open a new company one old one company disconnected from data base, now my old company doesn't show any thing, but in sql server all data is avail able. kindly…

Je voudrais faire une copie de sauvegarde des données des 3 dernières années seulement (2016 à 2019) Je ne veux pas que l'utilisateur est accès aux autres années historique

Hello I have a client of my MSP, and just realized they are doing daily manual backups of their company file and have years of ptb files, one for every weekday. DO they need to retain each of these or can they be removed, retaining only the most recent…

Hi, our small company is using sage 50 with its data in a SageDB. Currently the table 'sg_auf_drudef_history' us about 17GB in size (with overall size of around 18 GB) What is this sg_auf_drudef_history? Can I purge it in any way? Backups are…

I recently purchased a company running Sage 50 and I want to copy the company data and rename it with new business name. The issue is that I want to copy only the data starting July 1st. Is it possible to copy, backup or restore with only a specific starting…

My old computers screen broke. So I bought a new laptop and loaded the same 2017 premium accounting on the new computer. None of my ptb files will restore. Just says invalid file format. These files work just fine on the old computer, so i know the file…

Here's a new problem after installing 17.1.8 update (not a problem with 17.1.7): Common Tasks - Tools - File Tools - Backup The "ts.ctl" file is in use when we try to use file tools to backup our data. The knowledgebase leads you to various methods…

Our company MAS 500 server crashed, very hard no recover. The DB was backed up to another server and I am able to restore the DB from the BAK file. The data is there, but we need to access reports and stuff. We no longer have the MAS500 server software…

Merged over 3,300 items to code "Z_Discontinued" after months of working with staff to make sure all items on list were approved for merging. Now they need 2 of the 3,300 items restored, historical data. I created the original item numbers and setup…