Landed into QuickBooks company file missing or cannot be found issue? Well, this can be a common scenario, which might appear with a warning message stating “Warning: The company file you selected could not be found. You can try one of the following: Choose the open or restore company….’ Command from the file menu to look for this file in a different directory”. Or “Use the search tool from the windows start menu to search for this file in your computer”.

To get a better insight into fixing QuickBooks desktop company file is missing or cannot found issue, go through this piece of writing carefully. Or feel free to connect with our support professionals using our dedicated helpline.

Solutions to Fix Company file is missing or cannot be found in QuickBooks

You can perform the below set of steps to successfully resolve the company file missing error. Let us have a look:

1. Open the file in QuickBooks
   • Opening the company file or an accountant’s copy
     • From the file menu, choose open or restore company
     • Moreover, choose open a company file and also choose next
     • Choose the company file
     • Hit open tab
   • Restoring a backup
     • You need to choose the open or restore company from the file menu
     • Choose restore a backup file and choose next tab
     • Choose local backup
     • Moreover, choose the company file and hit next tab
     • You now have to choose the location where you would like to save the restored file and hit save tab
   • Restoring an accountant’s copy transfer file
     • Under this process, you need to choose open or restore a company from the file menu
     • Choose convert and accountant’s copy transfer file and hit next
     • In case the what accountant’s copy can and can’t do window is displayed, then hit next
     • You now have to choose the transfer file and hit next tab
     • Choose the location where you want to save the accountant’s copy file and hit save tab

2. Looking for all the company files

You need to move to server system and perform a wildcard search for all company files by typing one of the following:

• *.qbw (Working Files)
• *.qbb (Back Up Files)
• *.qba (Accountants Copy Files)
• *.qbx (Accountants Transfer Files)
• *.qby (Accountants Change Files)

After the file is found, then note the file’s location or contact an IT support.

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