Move or renaming a company (data) file

So you set up your data file and you realize you spelled something wrong on the company name in the file.  How do you fix this?

You do it outside of the QuickBooks program and directly in windows.  Go to your company file folder.

Quick tip:  If you don't know where you store the company files, do a windows search for .qbw files--these are your company files.  Then remember the path to them.

Once you have found it, right click on the file.

And select rename and rename it.

Here I have made the name correction.

Here I try to go to file, open previous, but it is no longer there.

So I have to re-browse to it to open it.

Another place you may have to correct is within the file under company, company information.

And that is really all you have to do to rename a company file.

Courtesy of our colleague Lynda Artesani, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in SW Florida